Bug 277544 – Lack of -c switch to bzip2 when building packages

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Michał Górny 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 2009-07-12 22:02:36 UTC]

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

[Comment 2 Michał Górny 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 2009-08-06 19:06:37 UTC]

Thanks, this is in svn r13934.

[Comment 4 Zac Medico 2009-08-10 00:25:26 UTC]

This is fixed in 2.2_rc37.

[Comment 5 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis (RETIRED) 2009-08-24 11:48:42 UTC]

Not released in 2.1.*.

[Comment 6 Zac Medico 2009-10-11 00:56:18 UTC]

This is fixed in 2.1.7.