On Sunday 27 January 2008 18:29:56 Enrico Weigelt wrote: > Why not an universal wrapper script ? > > maybe something like: > > magic-uncompress [-t <format>] [-c] [-o <output>] <input> > > This script could try to find out the input format automatically > (the optional -t parameter allows to explicitly specifiy the format) > > Once we have this script, ebuilds could be rewritten step by step > and no one (else than magic-uncompress) has to care about the actual > commands behind. > > Some could be done w/ tar and zip, etc.
You've just reinvented unpack(). It's been a part of portage for ages and is used in just about every ebuild in the tree... -- Bo Andresen
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