Re: bsdtar, pkg_install and archivers/xz

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 02:53:38PM +1300, Steven Drake wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Dec 2011, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 08:51:47PM +1300, Steven Drake wrote:
> > > So I think archivers/xz should be treated the same and distributed in its
> > > files directory.  I have the changes to xz, bsdtar and pkg_install tested
> > > and ready to commit.
> > 
> > I don't think so. zlib is primarily handled like that because it is the
> > default compression scheme. bzip2 for historic reasons. I don't think XZ
> > has to be threated as such.
> 
> In that case do you have any problems with adding '--without-lzma' to 
> libarchive's configure arguments in bsdtar and pkg_install?

Yes, I have. What's wrong with picking it up if it is present in the
base system?

Joerg