[Buildroot] [PATCH] Docu: Add LIBFOO_EXTRACT_CMDS

Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind.be
Sat Feb 16 17:35:14 UTC 2013


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 at mind.be>


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