Forwarding to the pacman-dev list.I'd prefer some copying of the code we use in makepkg to decide how to compress a package based on PKGEXT.
Alla -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Arch Linux] patch for bacman from pacman-contrib package Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 11:58:17 +1000 From: Nelson Chan <[email protected]> To: [email protected] originally, bacman doesn't catch up with current .pkg.tar.xz package format it produces a package named according /etc/makepkg.conf (e.g. *.pkg.tar.xz) but it fact it created a .gz format instead of xz Package : pacman-contrib (version 3.4.0-1) Component: /usr/bin/bacman (version 0.2.1) --- Nelson Chan here is the patch: --- bacman.orig 2010-08-21 00:15:43.480000752 +1000 +++ bacman 2010-08-21 00:22:20.440001311 +1000 @@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ pkg_arch=${CARCH:-'unknown'} pkg_dest="${PKGDEST:-$PWD}" -pkg_ext=${PKGEXT:-'.pkg.tar.gz'} +pkg_ext=${PKGEXT} pkg_pkger=${PACKAGER:-'Unknown Packager'} pkg_name="$1" @@ -266,7 +266,15 @@ echo "Generating the package..." ret=0 -bsdtar -czf "$pkg_dest/$pkg_namver-$pkg_arch$pkg_ext" $(ls -A) || ret=$? +if [[ $pkg_ext == ".pkg.tar.xz" ]]; then + tar -cJf "$pkg_dest/$pkg_namver-$pkg_arch.pkg.tar.xz" $(ls -A) || ret=$? +elif [[ $pkg_ext == ".pkg.tar.bz2" ]]; then + bsdtar -cyf "$pkg_dest/$pkg_namver-$pkg_arch.pkg.tar.bz2" $(ls -A) || ret=$? +else + bsdtar -czf "$pkg_dest/$pkg_namver-$pkg_arch.pkg.tar.gz" $(ls -A) || ret=$? +fi + + if [ $ret -ne 0 ]; then echo "ERROR: unable to write package to $pkg_dest" echo " Maybe the disk is full or you do not have write access"
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