Archive::Tar uncompress question

Ruby
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Hi,

I needed to use Archive::Tar today, and was bit by what I guess was an
unforseen use. I need to simply unpack an archive, optionally
decompressing it first. So, I have code like this:

def expand
  t = Archive::Tar.new( @name )
  case @name
  when /\.tar\.bz2/
    t.expand
  when /\.bz2/
    t.uncompress("bunzip2")
  when /\.t(ar\.)?gz/
    t.expand
  when /\.gz/
    t.uncompress("gunzip")
  when /\.zip/
    t.uncompress("unzip")
  else
    raise UnknownArchiveError
  end
end

which works fine for what I need if I redefine uncompress_archive like
so:

- unless @compressed_archive_name - raise CompressError, "no compressed file found" - end + unless @compressed_archive_name + @compressed_archive_name = @archive_name + end

It seems that @compressed_archive_name can only be set if one first
compresses an archive. I don’t need to do that here - I just need to
uncompress an already-existing archive.

Should I be redefining this method or should the package be changed to
the (my) expected behavior? Or have I just totally missed the usage
here? Has anyone else run up against this?

  • Dimitri
2

On 4/6/06, Dimitri A. [email protected] wrote:

I needed to use Archive::Tar today, and was bit by what I guess was an
unforseen use. I need to simply unpack an archive, optionally
decompressing it first. So, I have code like this:

…

I’m not sure. I’m just surprised that tarsimple uses Archive::Tar as
its name, instead of Archive::Tar::Wrapper or something like that,
since it’s just a wrapper, and not a tar implementation in Ruby.

-austin