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[OH-Dev] [PATCH] mission refuses non-compressed tarballs, so be clear in the instructions

shawn shawnlandden at gmail.com
Sun May 13 21:26:21 UTC 2012


On Sun, 2012-05-13 at 14:23 -0700, Mark Holmquist wrote: 
> Thanks for the patch, Shawn! But while we're at it, could you make it 
> clear that it's necessary to use the gzip compression method? bzip2 is 
> also not accepted, in my testing.
> 
> Also, maybe this is a bit much for this patch, but would it be helpful 
> to add in some guidelines for naming the tarball file itself? It 
> currently doesn't seem to do any checks there.
> 

Yes this is what i checked out the source to do, (well xz, I consider
bzip2 obsoleted by xz/lzma) but I saw this while researching the former.
-- 
-Shawn Landden



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