From: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: "cygwin-apps@cygwin.com" <cygwin-apps@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: scallywag / cygport not pulling lzip
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2021 14:21:19 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c1aed57a-9335-2640-baf2-dc708944a7e1@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cfdd1d59-896e-7d93-d252-beebed185067@gmail.com>
On 08/01/2021 13:58, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> On 08.01.2021 14:23, ASSI wrote:
>> Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps writes:
>>> it seems that cygport is not pulling the decompressor
>>> that is supposed to recognise:
>>>
>>> https://ci.appveyor.com/project/cygwin/scallywag/builds/37134000/job/0m9h56ptrwwyg3hc
>>>
>>>
>>>>> Unpacking source flex-2.6.4.tar.lz
>>> tar (child): lzip: Cannot exec: No such file or directory
>>> tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>>> tar: Child returned status 2
>>> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>>> *** ERROR: tar xf flex-2.6.4.tar.lz failed
>>
>> Since tar is a Base package it doesn't require lzip (which would
>> effectively make it a Base install). You have to add lzip to
>> BUILD_REQUIRES or switch to the GZip archive.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Achim.
>>
>
> Hi Achim,
>
> this is an upstream source package.
>
> IMHO cygport should pull tar and all the decompressor that
> is supposed to manage.
>
> $ grep SRC_URI NEWS
> ...
> * SRC_URI supports .tar.lz archives.
> * SRC_URI accepts .tar.xz archives.
> * SRC_URI accepts .tar.lzo archives.
> ...
Yeah, perhaps lzip should be a dependency of cygport.
For the moment, I've applied a tweak to scallywag to ensure lzip gets
installed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-08 14:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-08 7:38 Marco Atzeri
2021-01-08 13:23 ` ASSI
2021-01-08 13:58 ` Marco Atzeri
2021-01-08 14:21 ` Jon Turney [this message]
2021-01-08 16:52 ` Brian Inglis
2021-01-08 17:13 ` Achim Gratz
2021-01-08 18:09 ` Brian Inglis
2021-01-08 19:11 ` Achim Gratz
2021-01-11 22:05 ` Brian Inglis
2021-01-12 16:28 ` Brian Inglis
2021-01-12 19:46 ` ASSI
2021-01-09 19:08 ` Achim Gratz
2022-08-14 19:07 Hannes Mueller
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