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To: Derek Flowers <djflow@portwwwbus.tc.cc.va.us>
cc: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC <softweyr@xmission.com>,
        Drew Derbyshire - UUPC/extended software support <software@kew.com>,
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Subject: Re: Binary package updates, etc. 
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Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 07:38:40 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> Basically, I just took the binary distribution off the 2.2.5-RELEASE cd
> and created a skeleton to get it to work with pkg_add.  In theory, any
> binary updates would work with the same skeleton.

Hmmmm.  How does this handle the issue of a /tmp directory that's not
big enough to hold the intermediate unpacked copy?  That reason is why
bin, doc, manpages, etc are not currently distributed as packages.

You might look into ``@option extract-in-place'' as a way of getting
around that limitation.

						Jordan

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