Re: PATCH: maintainer-scripts/gcc_release -- tar versus ${TAR}

[Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>]

On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> This surely isn't going to fix the problem with yesterday's snapshot

Surely not, but the old code was responsible for me not noticing this
problem when making an "innocent" single line tweak last week and it
was inconsistent with our coding style, so I fixed it right away.

Of course I also have a full fix for the problem causing yesterday's
snapshot, and a proper snapshot is building (actually already uploading)
while I'm typing this.

> (that the hardcoded xfz expects a .tar.gz file, not .tar.bz2, and
> likewise the hardcoded .gz reference in the next line is a relic of
> generating .gz files then optionally creating .bz2 files from them).

Correct, yes.  I didn't feel brave enough to move this to a higher
level of abstraction alltogether with my patch to switch from .gz to
.bz2 as primary format, but I took the time to make simplifications
and enhancements (documentation, error handling,...) on the way.

I believe I'll ask you for a helping hand/review over the next few
weeks, when I'll try run snapshots off two branches.

Gerald
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