ExtractTar: Allow an empty decompressor program

This allows for uncompressed tar files, as the decompressor process will
not get interposed in-between the file descriptors.

diff --git a/apt-inst/contrib/extracttar.cc b/apt-inst/contrib/extracttar.cc
index 2437c97498b6df58e54c43e06f24aa53da574e1e..41301d1a684c54b66d1e00e52abd20a4eaba595d 100644 (file)
--- a/apt-inst/contrib/extracttar.cc
+++ b/apt-inst/contrib/extracttar.cc
@@ -111,6 +111,12 @@ bool ExtractTar::Done(bool Force)
    gzip will efficiently ignore the extra bits. */
 bool ExtractTar::StartGzip()
 {
+   if (DecompressProg.empty())
+   {
+      InFd.OpenDescriptor(File.Fd(), FileFd::ReadOnly, FileFd::None, false);
+      return true;
+   }
+
    int Pipes[2];
    if (pipe(Pipes) != 0)
       return _error->Errno("pipe",_("Failed to create pipes"));