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  • From: Jaka Kranjc <smgl AT lynxlynx.info>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] [RFC] Compressed filetype detection (Bug #16011)
  • Date: Sun, 15 May 2016 13:29:12 +0200

On Saturday 14 of May 2016 16:12:34 Ismael Luceno wrote:
> Dear fellow mages,
>
> Bug #16011 [0], recently filled, deals with the issue of upgrading
> an old system to the latest stable releases.
>
> Since a while ago, some of the sources of spells in stable are
> compressed by xz, but this format is not recognized by older versions
> of the `file` command, which sorcery uses to figure out how to
> decompress the file.
>
> As a first measure to avoid this issue now and in future releases, I
> would like to replace the code dealing with parsing the output of the
> `file` command with a custom script that detects only the formats
> needed by sorcery, and has no external dependencies. A prototype
> written using only dd and awk is attached to the bug report [1].
>
> I would like to hear opinions about this implementation and any ideas
> about how it could be improved.
Hey,

maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see an improvement here. When we get
in the same situation next time, how will we be able to ensure the user
updates this script first? Seems easier with a spell (force_depends).

LP
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