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On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 11:41:58AM +0100, Gavan Fantom wrote:

> Is pkg_info being too harsh in treating a warning from tar as an error?

yes, though I think this has been fixed in NetBSD-current.

> The best solution to this would seem to be to teach pkg_info to choose the
> files it wishes to extract more carefully, based on the flags given.
> Alternatively, should it just extract all files starting with a + sign?

that's how GNU tar's --fast-read worked, pkg_info used to call "tar
zxf blah.tgz +*" but in pax-as-tar that extracts the first file
starting with a + and then exits.

grant.


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