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Document compression support for pkg_tar #972

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@dougthor42

I didn't know this, but pkg_tar supports some compressions natively:

extension = ctx.attr.extension
if extension and extension != "tar":
compression = None
dot_pos = ctx.attr.extension.rfind(".")
if dot_pos >= 0:
compression = ctx.attr.extension[dot_pos + 1:]
else:
compression = ctx.attr.extension
if compression == "tgz":
compression = "gz"
if compression == "txz":
compression = "xz"
if compression:
if compression in SUPPORTED_TAR_COMPRESSIONS:
args.add("--compression", compression)

by setting the extension attribute:

pkg_tar(
    name = "package_tester_bin_tar",
    srcs = [":package_tester_bin"],
    include_runfiles = True,
    extension="gz",  # this bit!
)

Let's get that documented.

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