Bug 476734

Summary:	app-text/acroread shouldn't use unpack on .TAR files
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	David Leverton <levertond>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Printing Team <printing>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	hypnos75
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	InVCS
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	476738

Description David Leverton 2013-07-13 18:01:09 UTC

app-text/acroread is using the unpack function to extract .TAR files, however support for .TAR (upper-case) is a Portage-specific feature not in PMS and not supported by Pkgcore or Paludis, so it should be changed back to using tar xf.

I've filed bug 476730 to allow this in a future EAPI, so hopefully it'll be available in the not-hugely-distant future.

Comment 1 Hypnos 2013-07-13 18:13:49 UTC

Installation of acroread-9.5.5 fails for me under paludis, as unpack says it is "skipping" ILNXR.TAR and COMMON.TAR .  Changing the line in the ebuild to "tar xf ./ILNXR.TAR; tar xf ./COMMON.TAR" works around the problem.

However, what's strange is that acroread-9.5.4 had the identical ebuild, and it installed just fine under Paludis.

Comment 2 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2013-07-13 19:07:42 UTC

This is fixed in cvs:

--- acroread-9.5.5.ebuild
+++ acroread-9.5.5.ebuild
@@ -87,7 +87,10 @@
 src_unpack() {
 	unpack ${A}
 	cd "${S}"
-	unpack ./ILINXR.TAR ./COMMON.TAR
+	# lowercase tar extension required for unpack, bug 476734
+	mv ./ILINXR.TAR ./ILINXR.tar || die
+	mv ./COMMON.TAR ./COMMON.tar || die
+	unpack ./ILINXR.tar ./COMMON.tar
 }
 
 src_prepare() {