scallywag / cygport not pulling lzip

[Marco Atzeri]

On 08.01.2021 14:23, ASSI wrote:
> Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps writes:
>> it seems that cygport is not pulling the decompressor
>> that is supposed to recognise:
>>
>> https://ci.appveyor.com/project/cygwin/scallywag/builds/37134000/job/0m9h56ptrwwyg3hc
>>
>>>> Unpacking source flex-2.6.4.tar.lz
>> tar (child): lzip: Cannot exec: No such file or directory
>> tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>> tar: Child returned status 2
>> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>> *** ERROR: tar xf flex-2.6.4.tar.lz failed
> 
> Since tar is a Base package it doesn't require lzip (which would
> effectively make it a Base install).  You have to add lzip to
> BUILD_REQUIRES or switch to the GZip archive.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Achim.
> 

Hi Achim,

this is an upstream source package.

IMHO cygport should pull tar and all the decompressor that
is supposed to manage.

  $ grep  SRC_URI NEWS
...
         * SRC_URI supports .tar.lz archives.
         * SRC_URI accepts .tar.xz archives.
         * SRC_URI accepts .tar.lzo archives.
...