tar - stage files from tar archives

Host dependencies:

• lzip (for .tar.lz files)

Usage:

# Specify the tar source kind
kind: tar

# Specify the tar url. Using an alias defined in your project
# configuration is encouraged. 'bst source track' will update the
# sha256sum in 'ref' to the downloaded file's sha256sum.
url: upstream:foo.tar

# Specify the ref. It's a sha256sum of the file you download.
ref: 6c9f6f68a131ec6381da82f2bff978083ed7f4f7991d931bfa767b7965ebc94b

# Specify a glob pattern to indicate the base directory to extract
# from the tarball. The first matching directory will be used.
#
# Note that this is '*' by default since most standard release
# tarballs contain a self named subdirectory at the root which
# contains the files one normally wants to extract to build.
#
# To extract the root of the tarball directly, this can be set
# to an empty string.
base-dir: '*'

See built-in base class functionality doumentation and built-in downloadable file source functionality doumentation for details on common configuration options applicable to this source.

Reporting SourceInfo

The tar source does not override any of the DownloadableFileSource reporting functionality and as such, behaves as described in the default reporting of SourceInfo documentation.