On Feb 17, 2009, at 11:58, Rainer Müller wrote:
Ryan Schmidt wrote:
bzip2 is essential for dealing with receipts, yes, but bzip2, gzip
and tar are also essential for decompressing the vast majority of
distfiles. We've seen failures at extract time when a user migrated a
bzip2 from a previous Mac's MacPorts installation that got broken.
In my opinion decompressing distfiles is not vital. When the
registry is
broken, it is hard to get it fixed agin. But if a decompressor (tar,
gzip, bzip2) is broken, it's easy to deactivate this port and use the
one from the system.
However, MacPorts does not issue an error message if the decompressor
fails. The first error message the user sees is during the configure
phase when it can't find the files that should be there. This is
confusing.
http://trac.macports.org/ticket/16223
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