From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#29235: 26.0.50; tar.xz broken Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 09:47:08 +0200 Message-ID: <838tfer2wz.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1510300095 11667 195.159.176.226 (10 Nov 2017 07:48:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 07:48:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 29235@debbugs.gnu.org To: Devon Sean McCullough Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 10 08:48:11 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eD42p-0002jk-UI for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Nov 2017 08:48:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40508 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eD42w-0005mB-Qi for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Nov 2017 02:48:14 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42653) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eD42n-0005lu-6e for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Nov 2017 02:48:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eD42k-000712-2c for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Nov 2017 02:48:05 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:52641) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eD42j-00070k-Uf for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Nov 2017 02:48:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eD42j-00080W-Ko for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Nov 2017 02:48:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 07:48:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 29235 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 29235-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B29235.151030004230728 (code B ref 29235); Fri, 10 Nov 2017 07:48:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 29235) by debbugs.gnu.org; 10 Nov 2017 07:47:22 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33089 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eD426-0007zY-EK for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 10 Nov 2017 02:47:22 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:51587) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eD424-0007zK-KS for 29235@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 10 Nov 2017 02:47:20 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eD41w-0006Uk-3g for 29235@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 10 Nov 2017 02:47:15 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:50315) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eD41v-0006Ue-Vs; Fri, 10 Nov 2017 02:47:12 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3520 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eD41u-0002gV-Jp; Fri, 10 Nov 2017 02:47:11 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Devon Sean McCullough on Thu, 9 Nov 2017 16:41:34 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:139713 Archived-At: > From: Devon Sean McCullough > 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.