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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Devon Sean McCullough <Emacs-Hacker2017@jovi.net>
Cc: 29235@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29235: 26.0.50; tar.xz broken
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 09:47:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <838tfer2wz.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FDA1FF64-50AC-48A0-98F2-FB840D140F7E@jovi.net> (message from Devon Sean McCullough on Thu, 9 Nov 2017 16:41:34 -0500)

> From: Devon Sean McCullough <Emacs-Hacker2017@jovi.net>
> Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2017 16:41:34 -0500
> 
> Emacs fails to open tar.xz files
> 
> 	Error while executing "xz -c -q -d < /tmp/bar.tar.xz"
> 	/bin/sh: xz: command not found
> 
> Note that MacOSX lacks xz but has tar
> which automagically decompresses xz.

Having tar or bsdtar does not help in this case, because what Emacs
needs is the uncompressed tar file (which it will then display in
tar-mode).  By contrast, bsdtar will unpack the archive completely,
writing the files to the disk.  AFAIK, tar and bsdtar don't have an
option to just uncompress the archive, or did I miss something?

So yes, you really need top install xz for this feature to work.





  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-10  7:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-09 21:41 bug#29235: 26.0.50; tar.xz broken Devon Sean McCullough
2017-11-10  7:47 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-11-10  9:37 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-11-10 14:24   ` Devon Sean McCullough
2021-09-03  7:10     ` bug#29235: Builtin bsdtar decompression for .tar.xz not used Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-03 10:24       ` Andreas Schwab
2021-09-03 10:45         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-24 15:07           ` Robert Pluim
2021-09-25  1:06             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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