On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 11:51 PM, Cedric Staniewski<[email protected]> wrote: > > Unfortunately, gzip/gunzip do not have something like a -k option and it > seems that there are no plans to add one [1,2]. The only possibilities > are recreating the link or decompressing to stdout (gzip -dc file.gz > > file). > > > By the way, another issue might be the use of file, because > decompressing via gzip/bzip2/xz without the -c option relies on the suffix. > > [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00039.html > [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=240539 >
yeah, I realized after writing my mail that gzip didn't have -k. crazy.. I wanted to go the lazy way and only fix bzip2 and xz, and not worry about gzip for now. About file type vs file extension : I don't see what we could do if the file extension is wrong. It is not possible to compute a destination file, so we can only fail there. And this is what should happen currently. However, if we want to fix the issue with gzip -dc file.gz > file , we probably need to check the extension, before trying to strip it. And if the extension does not match, we would probably fail here too. _______________________________________________ pacman-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/pacman-dev
