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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