Closed Bug 1631950 Opened 5 years ago Closed 2 years ago

Use native tools to extract zip/tar files when possible

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(Release Engineering :: Applications: MozharnessCore, enhancement)

enhancement

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(Not tracked)

RESOLVED INACTIVE

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(Reporter: catlee, Assigned: catlee)

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Python's implementation of tar and zip is slow compared to native tools.

We should use the system's tar/unzip if possible in download-and-extract.

The native tar tool is much faster than python's tarfile implementation. We
should try to extract using it when possible.

Some versions of tar do not support the --wildcards option, so we fallback to
using python's version in this case since extracting a subset of the files
using python is usually faster than extracting all of the files with the native
tool.

Add a special case for web-platform tests to extract everything using the
native tool instead of trying to filter. The filters are global to all test
packages currently being downloaded/extracted, but we need everything from the
web-platform tests archive anyway.

Assignee: nobody → catlee
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 2 years ago
Resolution: --- → INACTIVE
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