Re: .tar.xz support is buggy in 0.32.0

On 1/26/12 9:52 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
> On 1/26/12 9:27 AM, Max Horn wrote:
> 
>> Am 26.01.2012 um 15:09 schrieb Alexander Hansen:
> 
>> [...]
> 
>>>
>>> Sorry for the snark.  I spent a _long_ time getting those
>>> packages all to build against 0.32.x, and I tested that _all_ of
>>> them extracted and built.
>>>
>>> The real point I should have made is that 0.32.x works with all
>>> of the publicly accessible cases, and so any change to
>>> get_build_directory won't have a testable impact on the existing
>>> packages.
> 
>> Then I assume all those packages are using SourceDirectory.
> 
> Yeah, or NoSourceDirectory, or TarFilesRename.
> 
> So we were lucky (or unlucky, depending on how one views it) :).
> 
> 
> Probably unlucky.  The maintainers had to go through some hoops to
> handle the xz archives, and I wanted to make only small changes to get
> the packages to run.
> 
> gnutls28 was close to a normal case, but it would have had to have
> SourceDirectory regardless of what the archive format was. :-)
> 
>> But the attached trivial .info file is, I think, what the normal
>> package author would write when trying to use an .xz tarball... and
>> it errors out in a strange way, as described in my initial posting.
>> So, I still very much think this is a bad bug that should be fixed
>> ASAP.
> 
> 
>> Cheers, Max
> 
> I agree.  I've got a change that works, and also ensures that the same
> matches are used in both get_build_directory() and phase_unpack().
> I'll push it upstream presently.

Fixed in 0.32.1.

-- 
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison
http://finkakh.wordpress.com/

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