Bug 277544

Summary:	Lack of -c switch to bzip2 when building packages
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Michał Górny <mgorny>
Component:	Core - External Interaction	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	major	Keywords:	InVCS
Priority:	High
Version:	2.2
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	210077, 288499
Attachments:	Patch to add '-c' switch to bzip2 invocation

Description Michał Górny archtester

2009-07-12 22:02:08 UTC

When building binary packages, portage pipes tar data through 'bzip2 -f' (without '-c' switch).

Although standard bzip2 doesn't seem to have problems with it (pbzip2 has), according to the manual, will of outputting compressed data to STDOUT should be marked by use of '-c' switch.

AFAICS similar bzip2 invocations in portage code use the '-c' switch.

Comment 1 Michał Górny archtester

2009-07-12 22:02:36 UTC

Created attachment 197678 [details, diff]
Patch to add '-c' switch to bzip2 invocation

Comment 2 Michał Górny archtester

2009-07-12 22:04:52 UTC

I should add that I have used both '-c' and '-f' switches because portage does so in few places. I don't know why or what for…

Comment 3 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2009-08-06 19:06:37 UTC

Thanks, this is in svn r13934.

Comment 4 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2009-08-10 00:25:26 UTC

This is fixed in 2.2_rc37.

Comment 5 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-08-24 11:48:42 UTC

Not released in 2.1.*.

Comment 6 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2009-10-11 00:56:18 UTC

This is fixed in 2.1.7.