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1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/compression.scm b/gnu/packages/compression.scm
index f3142d1ddf..a2bf3a1861 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/compression.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/compression.scm
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
;;; Copyright © 2017 Manolis Fragkiskos Ragkousis <manolis837@gmail.com>
;;; Copyright © 2017 Theodoros Foradis <theodoros@foradis.org>
;;; Copyright © 2017 Stefan Reichör <stefan@xsteve.at>
+;;; Copyright © 2017 Petter <petter@mykolab.ch>
;;;
;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
;;;
@@ -1603,3 +1604,24 @@ extract files to standard out). As @command{atool} invokes external programs
to handle the archives, not all commands may be supported for a certain type
of archives.")
(license license:gpl2+)))
+
+(define-public perl-archive-extract
+ (package
+ (name "perl-archive-extract")
+ (version "0.80")
+ (source
+ (origin
+ (method url-fetch)
+ (uri (string-append "mirror://cpan/authors/id/B/BI/BINGOS/Archive-Extract-"
+ version ".tar.gz"))
+ (sha256
+ (base32
+ "1x15j1q6w6z8hqyqgap0lz4qbq2174wfhksy1fdd653ccbaw5jr5"))))
+ (build-system perl-build-system)
+ (home-page "http://search.cpan.org/dist/Archive-Extract/")
+ (synopsis "Generic archive extracting mechanism")
+ (description "It allows you to extract any archive file of the type .tar,
+.tar.gz, .gz, .Z, tar.bz2, .tbz, .bz2, .zip, .xz,, .txz, .tar.xz or .lzma
+without having to worry how it does so, or use different interfaces for each
+type by using either Perl modules, or command-line tools on your system.")
+ (license license:perl-license)))