From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 21:55:58 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 2/6] pkg-utils: implement INFLATE for .deb files In-Reply-To: <1431959088-15257-3-git-send-email-guido@vanguardiasur.com.ar> References: <1431959088-15257-1-git-send-email-guido@vanguardiasur.com.ar> <1431959088-15257-3-git-send-email-guido@vanguardiasur.com.ar> Message-ID: <20150518215558.0cde581c@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Guido Mart?nez, On Mon, 18 May 2015 11:24:44 -0300, Guido Mart?nez wrote: > +ar fp ${DEBFILE} data.tar.xz | ${XZCAT} -d Are all Debian .deb packages compressed with the xz compression? How many packages would benefit for this being supported at the package infra level vs. handling it directly in the toolchain-external package? We normally try to not clutter the package infra with features only useful to one package, especially when the feature can easily be implemented at the package level. Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com