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Date:      Wed, 24 Nov 2004 13:33:50 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Abid Saigol <abid@saigol.biz>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: extracting a single file from a package
Message-ID:  <20041124213350.GA28355@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <OHEAINFJBNIPHLAKMMHDMEGBCIAA.abid@saigol.biz>
References:  <OHEAINFJBNIPHLAKMMHDMEGBCIAA.abid@saigol.biz>

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On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 04:19:54PM -0500, Abid Saigol wrote:
> I have installed courier mail server from packages.  It seems that a single
> executable file is corrupted.  I don't want to reinstall the package as I
> don't want to reset my configuration info.  Is there any way to extract a
> single binary file from the package archive?

It's just a compressed tarball, so you'd use tar.  Reinstalling the
package shouldn't destroy your configuration though, unless there's a
serious problem with the package.

Kris

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