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Bug 523380 - vcs-snapshot.eclass should support *.zip archives
Summary: vcs-snapshot.eclass should support *.zip archives
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 420743
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Michał Górny
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Reported: 2014-09-21 14:21 UTC by Justin Lecher (RETIRED)
Modified: 2014-09-21 17:22 UTC (History)
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Description Justin Lecher (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2014-09-21 14:21:44 UTC 
Github provides zip archives from commits. So it would be nice if we could have support for it in the eclass
Comment 1 Michał Górny archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2014-09-21 16:16:49 UTC 
Unless you have a very good reason to use zip instead of tar, it's just ugly featurism and I'm not going for it. GNU tar has a nice switch to unpack into custom directory, with zip I'd have to reinvent the wheel.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 420743 ***
Comment 2 Justin Lecher (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2014-09-21 17:22:56 UTC 
(In reply to Michał Górny from comment #1)
> Unless you have a very good reason to use zip instead of tar, it's just ugly
> featurism and I'm not going for it. GNU tar has a nice switch to unpack into
> custom directory, with zip I'd have to reinvent the wheel.

You are absolutely right, tarballs are the better solution.