Why does /etc/setup/installed.db list tar.bz2 even if tar.xz

[Marco Atzeri]

On 04/02/2018 03:19, Steven Penny wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Oct 2013 23:48:00, <cygwin at kosowsky dot org> wrote:
>> The installed.db seems to always list packages as being tar.bz2 even
>> when they are tar.xz.
>>
>> Is there any reason for this? Or is it a bug?
> 
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-10/msg00170.html
> 
> This is an old thread, but it appears this issue was never answered and
> persists. For example, /etc/setup/installed.db has entries like this:
> 

it is an historical shortcut in the setup code.
".tar.bz2" is just added to package name and version,
it is not really derived from the package file


$ grep -H  "tar.bz2" package_db.cc
package_db.cc:      pkgm.name + "-" + 
std::string(pkgm.installed.Canonical_version()) + ".tar.bz2 " +


When we moved from bz2 to xz, that shortcut was not changed.

Regards
Marco





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