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Bug 69616 - Ebuilder handles tar.Z files incorrectly
Summary: Ebuilder handles tar.Z files incorrectly
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Unspecified (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Portage Tools Team
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Reported: 2004-10-31 06:26 UTC by Christian Jiresjö
Modified: 2004-10-31 11:20 UTC (History)
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Description Christian Jiresjö 2004-10-31 06:26:02 UTC
whenever i feed ebuilder a file that ends with .Z it tries to unzip it which doesn't work because unzip don't like the file. This type of file can be handled completly by tar and that is probably the proper way atleast as long as tar is gnu tar.
Solution is quite easy on normal gentoo. Use tar zxf instead of unzip then tar xf 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.start ebuilder
2.give it a source uri pointing to a .tar.Z file
3.

Actual Results:  
ebuilder crashed and i had to restart which is another bug i will file bugreport on

Expected Results:  
It should have unpacked the file correctly and continued
Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2004-10-31 11:20:59 UTC
unfortunately we dont maintain ebuilder and have no idea who does ... you'll have to try to contact the people who write ebuilder

if you do find an e-mail address for the maintainer, please tell us :)