[Toybox] tar xf doesn't work on compressed files if the *cat tools aren't available

[enh]

On Sat, Aug 27, 2022 at 2:13 AM Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:

> On 8/26/22 18:34, enh via Toybox wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 5:49 PM enh <enh at google.com <mailto:
> enh at google.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     the kernel folks build in an even more restricted environment than
> AOSP. so
> >     although they have bzip2 and gzip, they don't have bzcat and gzcat.
> ...
> > ran out of time to investigate further today, but i did at least send
> you a
> > patch to fix the build, and another to fix the tar tests on macOS
> again...
>
> Hopefully fixed?
>

(other shit was broken enough today i still don't know... i'll try again
tomorrow :-( )


> The reason I take so much time cleaning stuff up and promoting it is so
> that
> WHEN I get a bug report like this, I'm confident I can root cause and fix
> it in
> a reasonable amount of time. (Don't want to promote anything I can't
> support.)
>
> The vague goal of the tutorial videos I'm trying to do (well, the code
> walkthrough side anyway) is explaining promoted commands in sufficient
> detail to
> get the bus number up.
>
> Rob
>
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