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deposit: support archive formats other than zip (e.g., tarballs)
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At the moment, the deposit deals only with the zip kinds (as per sword 2.0 specification).
Being more standard to be able to deal with more tarballs (.tar.*) would be a plus.

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zack renamed this task from deposit: Improve tarball policy to deposit: support archive formats other than zip (e.g., tarballs).Jan 8 2018, 12:44 PM
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ardumont moved this task from Restricted Project Column to Restricted Project Column on the Restricted Project board.Jan 11 2018, 3:03 PM

@ardumont so, what is actually supported in terms of format?

so, what is actually supported in terms of format?

As per the current tarball loader:

  • zip
  • tar (gzip, bz2 and lzma)

As per the current tarball loader:

  • zip
  • tar (gzip, bz2 and lzma)

Great. Can we document this somewhere? (I'm guessing the official docs of the deposit would be the best place, but I haven't checked.)

zack moved this task from Restricted Project Column to Restricted Project Column on the Restricted Project board.Jan 18 2018, 3:24 PM