Making pkg_XXX tools smarter about file types...
Tim Kientzle
kientzle at acm.org
Fri Mar 28 23:17:54 PST 2003
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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