From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Feb 6 16:04:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA26978 for ports-outgoing; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 16:04:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU (silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU [136.152.64.181]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA26969 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 16:04:13 -0800 (PST) Received: (from asami@localhost) by silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU (8.7.3/8.6.9) id QAA08513; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 16:04:03 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 16:04:03 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199602070004.QAA08513@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> To: jdp@polstra.com CC: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <199602062312.PAA19412@austin.polstra.com> (message from John Polstra on Tue, 06 Feb 1996 15:12:07 -0800) Subject: Re: No more PLIST size limits in pkg_create From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk * The new version passes the filenames and "@cwd" directives to tar * through a pipe, using tar's "-T" option. That keeps the tar command * line quite short, regardless of the size of the PLIST file. Thank you very very much John! Or should I call you the great Mr. Polstra! Satoshi (``Polstra for world leader!'')