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Re: source packages and upstream source



> I absolutely agree with you that the process of automating the 
> downloading and unpacking of upstream sources is an impossible dream.

I'm not so sure.

If this is supposed to be impossible because we don't know what the internal structure of the upstream tar is going to be, then there are only really two cases we need to handle.

1) the tar creates a subdirectory

2) the tar unpacks into the current directory

If we create temporary directory, and un-tar the source in that,
then if it ends up containing a single directory, we are looking at case 1,
otherwise case 2.

It shouldn't be too difficult to handle either of these, and between them they cover almost every package in existence.

Or have I missing the point ?

Cheers, Phil.