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From: Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: scallywag / cygport not pulling lzip
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2021 14:58:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cfdd1d59-896e-7d93-d252-beebed185067@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wnwnk1er.fsf@Otto.invalid>

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.
...


  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-08 13:58 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 [this message]
2021-01-08 14:21     ` Jon Turney
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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