Re: bsdtar, pkg_install and archivers/xz

[Steven Drake <sbd%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Tue, 13 Dec 2011, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 02:53:38PM +1300, Steven Drake wrote:
> > On Mon, 12 Dec 2011, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 08:51:47PM +1300, Steven Drake wrote:
> > > > So I think archivers/xz should be treated the same and distributed in 
> > > > its
> > > > files directory.  I have the changes to xz, bsdtar and pkg_install 
> > > > tested
> > > > and ready to commit.
> > > 
> > > I don't think so. zlib is primarily handled like that because it is the
> > > default compression scheme. bzip2 for historic reasons. I don't think XZ
> > > has to be threated as such.
> > 
> > In that case do you have any problems with adding '--without-lzma' to 
> > libarchive's configure arguments in bsdtar and pkg_install?
> 
> Yes, I have. What's wrong with picking it up if it is present in the
> base system?

Nothing if PREFER.xz == "native", I'm taking about when its "pkgsrc", in
which case one of the two options should be used.  So which one?

BTW, your the one who setup this behavior in both bsdtar and pkg_install.

-- 
Steven