Re: [swh-devel] Disarchive database includes tar.xz archives

[Valentin Lorentz]

Hi,

ADDITIONAL_ARCHIVE_FORMATS complements formats already supported 
natively by Python's shutil module (listed here: 
https://docs.python.org/3/library/shutil.html#shutil.unpack_archive ) 
which includes tar.bz2

On 29/08/2022 11:43, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hello!
>
> (+Cc: swh-devel)
>
> zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> skribis:
>
> > I do not the remember the status of tar.xz in nixguix SWH loader.
>
> Looking at
> <https://forge.softwareheritage.org/source/swh-core/browse/master/swh/core/tarball.py$239>,
> it would seem that tar.xz is not supported (but tar.bz2 and tar.zst
> are).
>
> Am I right?
>
> That said, I ran ‘guix lint -c archival’ on several tar.xz packages and
> couldn’t find any whose source is missing from SWH.
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.