Re: bsdtar, pkg_install and archivers/xz

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 09:31:02PM +0300, Andrey N. Oktyabrski wrote:
> On 13.12.11 15:36, 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?
> There can be something like this:
> http://gnats.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=45491

Completely separate issue.

Joerg