Subject: Re: enhancement to pkg utils.
To: Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 11/19/1998 09:42:55
On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Darren Reed wrote:

: Then, to my amazement, "pkg_delete foo" did work, but perhaps that's not
: so amazing if you pause to think about it.
: 
: In asking why pkg_add was so "dumb", nobody on icb (seemed to have much
: of an idea) so I have since quickly made the hack below (see patches) to
: the pkg libinstall.a.

It really should just check the name and .tgz, as that's the given extension
of a correctly formatted binary pkg.

-- 
-- Todd Vierling (Personal tv@pobox.com; Bus. todd_vierling@xn.xerox.com)