From: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] Docu: Add LIBFOO_EXTRACT_CMDS
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2013 18:35:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <511FC352.6050000@mind.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <511FB25D.3040408@relinux.de>
On 16/02/13 17:22, Stephan Hoffmann wrote:
> Am 29.01.2013 18:29, schrieb Arnout Vandecappelle:
>> On 29/01/13 11:39, Stephan Hoffmann wrote:
>>> Am 29.01.2013 11:18, schrieb Samuel Martin:
>> [snip]
>>>>>>> +* +LIBFOO_EXTRACT_CMDS+ lists the actions to be performed to
>>>>>>> + extract the package in case no standard method applies
>>>>> It could be nice to add what are the standard/supported methods
>>> Sure. But I do not know them, I just decided to document this one
>>> because I had to search for the information recently.
>>
>> There is currently only one: tar - and if you don't override the
>> commands, tar is used regardless of filetype or extension.
>>
>> It supports three compression types: gzip (extension .gz or .tgz),
>> bzip2 (extension .bz2, .tbz or .tbz2), and xz (extension .xz).
>>
>> Feel free to copy the above directly :-)
>>
> I do not think that the list of XXX_CMDS variables is the right place to
> document the default behavior without them.
>
> Of course whe should have a documentation of the default behaior
> somewhere in the manual, but I am not enough familiar with this topic to
> write it.
>
> So I suggest to commit my patch as it is, it still applies to HEAD.
Good point.
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-29 10:04 [Buildroot] [PATCH] Docu: Add LIBFOO_EXTRACT_CMDS Stephan Hoffmann
2013-01-29 10:18 ` Samuel Martin
2013-01-29 10:39 ` Stephan Hoffmann
2013-01-29 17:29 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2013-02-16 16:22 ` Stephan Hoffmann
2013-02-16 17:35 ` Arnout Vandecappelle [this message]
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