[77739] trunk/base/src/port1.0/portinstall.tcl

[Anders F Björklund]

Daniel J. Luke wrote:

>>> +    set qflag ""
>>> +    # should probably really check if this is supported by tar at configure time
>>> +    if {([option os.major] >= 10 && [option os.platform] == "darwin") || [string match *bsd [option os.platform]]} {
>>> +        set qflag "q"
>>> +    }
>> 
>> You could use the test from line 937 of aclocal.m4 to make a new test for this pretty easily. That's where the test for --no-same-owner support is.
>> 
>> (Although I think we also check for TAR vs GNUTAR in configure already, so there might even be something simpler).
> 
> sorry, missed r77750 (afb) when I wrote this ...

The best fix would be to make MacPorts use libarchive
for reading/writing tarballs, instead of forking/exec.

http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/

That way it would have the "fast read" -q everywhere,
and also be able to handle the compression internally.

Similar to using curl(1) vs. libcurl ?

--anders