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Date:      Wed, 10 May 1995 15:19:51 -0700
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com>
To:        roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert)
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Current Users' list)
Subject:   Re: Pkg_info and friends 
Message-ID:  <7299.800144391@freefall.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 10 May 95 01:32:16 %2B0200." <199505092332.BAA13453@keltia.frmug.fr.net> 

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> Jordan, could you please explain what's going on with all the pkg_*
> programs ? Why do they have to use tar for ?

Because packages are just smart tarballs.. :-)

You need the latest mk files and tar to use the pkg_install suite
as it currently stands, though there's also a big in pkg_info which
I'll go look at now..  Thanks for reminding me!

					Jordan



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