pkgsrc has use of cpio for installing files. Example:
emulators/linux-locale/Makefile
cross/i386-linuxglibc1/Makefile

I thought I saw a use of pax to install cpio files. But I don't see now.

And pax is used to extract cpio distfiles. Example:
devel/sfio/Makefile
sysutils/storage-manager/Makefile
fonts/chkfontpath/Makefile

And cpio is used to extract cpio distfiles. Example:
fonts/ko-mizi/Makefile
cross/i386-linux/Makefile

Variable CPIO does not exist.

Should we define CPIO? Should we get rid of all cpio use and just use PAX
since it supports same?

I am using for a new package (openclipart):

CPIO?=                  /usr/bin/cpio
...

        cd ${WRKSRC} && ${FIND} [a-z]* \! -name "*.png" |       \
                ${CPIO} -p ${PREFIX}/share/openclipart


Should I use cpio? Or what is the recommended way to pass through?

By the way, the tarball is 51MB unextracted. I also see that
print/teTeX-sharesrc actually unextracts the tarball from the distfiles
itself in the do-install target to the install location. Should I do that
instead?

 Jeremy C. Reed

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