821076 – Add tar.lz support to unpack

Bug 821076 - Add tar.lz support to unpack

Summary: Add tar.lz support to unpack

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 249059

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Reported:	2021-10-31 11:55 UTC by hoelbezier
Modified:	2021-10-31 13:50 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description hoelbezier 2021-10-31 11:55:32 UTC

The `unpack` function used in ebuilds to unpack source packages supports a lot of compression formats, but lzip is not one of them, although the `tar` executable has built-in lzip support (through the --lzip option).

lzip being designed for long-term archiving, it makes it perfectly suitable for package archiving and distribution, so I think portage should support it. Moreover, portage binary package support lzip compression.

Comment 1 Michał Górny archtester

2021-10-31 12:18:30 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 249059 ***