Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 23:18:27 -0800 From: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@acm.org> To: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Making pkg_XXX tools smarter about file types... Message-ID: <3E8548C3.90209@acm.org> References: <3E42C148.4050807@acm.org> <20030329012828.GA32891@intruder.bmah.org>
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Bruce A. Mah wrote: >>The attached patch modifies the pkg_install >>tools to inspect the file contents--rather than the >>filename extension--to determine the >>compression method in use. > > ... it works great for the case of a package coming in on stdin. If the > package comes from a file, ... Oh, bloody hell. I overlooked 'pkg_add -r', too, didn't I? Shouldn't take too long to add the auto-detect logic to the remote fetch handling, as well. <sigh> Tim
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