[MacPorts] #61276: meson @0.55.3: /usr/bin/gnutar: meson-0.55.3/COPYING: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00

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#61276: meson @0.55.3: /usr/bin/gnutar: meson-0.55.3/COPYING: implausibly old time
stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
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  Reporter:  ballapete  |      Owner:  git@…
      Type:  defect     |     Status:  assigned
  Priority:  Normal     |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports      |    Version:  2.6.3
Resolution:             |   Keywords:  tiger powerpc legacy-os
      Port:  meson      |
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Comment (by ballapete):

 Replying to [comment:9 kencu]:
 > So -- I guess we're making gnutar a dependency for -- what? -- using xz
 on older systems?

 Actually `gnutar` does not need to have any dependency. If it finds any of
 `xz | bzip2 | gzip | lzip | lzma | lzop | compress` it can handle
 compressed tape archives. `xz` should become a part of `MacPorts` – how
 does it work on Catalina or such with `xz` compressed archives? Apple does
 not put `xz` in macOS…
 A clever option would be if `port` would be able to determine which of the
 compressors exists on the system and then decide to fetch the most
 efficient file – which would mean to take into account data rate of the
 internet connection, speed of the file system and RAM, and power of the
 CPU.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/61276#comment:10>
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