compression.py: buffered copy (#31533)

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/lib/spack/spack/util/compression.py b/lib/spack/spack/util/compression.py
index cbd5beddec..859f4faa28 100644
--- a/lib/spack/spack/util/compression.py
+++ b/lib/spack/spack/util/compression.py
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ def _bunzip2(archive_file):
         import bz2
         f_bz = bz2.BZ2File(archive_file, mode='rb')
         with open(archive_out, 'wb') as ar:
-            ar.write(f_bz.read())
+            shutil.copyfileobj(f_bz, ar)
         f_bz.close()
     else:
         shutil.copy(archive_file, copy_path)
@@ -139,7 +139,8 @@ def _gunzip(archive_file):
         import gzip
         f_in = gzip.open(archive_file, "rb")
         with open(destination_abspath, "wb") as f_out:
-            f_out.write(f_in.read())
+            shutil.copyfileobj(f_in, f_out)
+        f_in.close()
     else:
         _system_gunzip(archive_file)
     return destination_abspath
@@ -200,7 +201,7 @@ def _lzma_decomp(archive_file):
         archive_out = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), decompressed_file)
         with open(archive_out, 'wb') as ar:
             with lzma.open(archive_file) as lar:
-                ar.write(lar.read())
+                shutil.copyfileobj(lar, ar)
     else:
         if is_windows:
             return _7zip(archive_file)