[MacPorts] #51676: rpm54 @5.4.15 should move away from using xar-devel
#51676: rpm54 @5.4.15 should move away from using xar-devel -------------------------+-------------------------------- Reporter: aszostak@… | Owner: macports-tickets@… Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: ports | Version: 2.3.4 Keywords: | Port: rpm54 -------------------------+-------------------------------- The project for the xar tool appears to be abandoned under: https://code.google.com/archive/p/xar/ The xar-devel port that rpm54 depends on does not build or install at the moment. I believe there is a system provided alternative currently on the OSX platform. Is it not better to move away from the abandoned xar implementation to the system one? -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/51676> MacPorts <https://www.macports.org/> Ports system for OS X
#51676: rpm54 @5.4.15 should move away from using xar-devel --------------------------+--------------------- Reporter: aszostak@… | Owner: n3npq@… Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: ports | Version: Resolution: | Keywords: Port: rpm54 | --------------------------+--------------------- Changes (by mf2k@…): * owner: macports-tickets@… => n3npq@… * cc: afb@… (added) * version: 2.3.4 => Comment: In the future, please Cc the port maintainers ({{{port info --maintainers rpm54}}}), if any. -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/51676#comment:1> MacPorts <https://www.macports.org/> Ports system for OS X
#51676: rpm54 @5.4.15 should move away from using xar-devel --------------------------+--------------------- Reporter: aszostak@… | Owner: n3npq@… Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: ports | Version: Resolution: | Keywords: Port: rpm54 | --------------------------+--------------------- Comment (by mf2k@…): See #51675. -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/51676#comment:2> MacPorts <https://www.macports.org/> Ports system for OS X
#51676: rpm54 @5.4.15 should move away from using xar-devel --------------------------+--------------------- Reporter: aszostak@… | Owner: n3npq@… Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: ports | Version: Resolution: | Keywords: Port: rpm54 | --------------------------+--------------------- Comment (by afb@…): It is "illegal" to use system libraries in MacPorts, so that would probably mean packaging http://opensource.apple.com/source/xar/ as a port. But since noone is using the xar format anyway, might as well stick with the old rpm format ? Especially if the xar project has died (even more). Then again the "alive" project also failed to release 1.6.0 (thus the use of "xar-devel"), so there's not *that* much difference from Google Code. It has already been removed from Debian, for failing to maintain and secure itself: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=574023 -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/51676#comment:3> MacPorts <https://www.macports.org/> Ports system for OS X
#51676: rpm54 @5.4.15 should move away from using xar-devel --------------------------+--------------------- Reporter: aszostak@… | Owner: n3npq@… Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: ports | Version: Resolution: | Keywords: Port: rpm54 | --------------------------+--------------------- Changes (by devans@…): * cc: mww@… (added) Comment: It appears that a copy of the old xar googlecode svn repo was cloned to github including a 1.6.1 release. Perhaps port xar could be updated using this source and dispense with xar-devel altogether? New homepage http://mackyle.github.io/xar/ [[BR]] New github repo https://github.com/mackyle/xar -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/51676#comment:4> MacPorts <https://www.macports.org/> Ports system for OS X
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