Re: pkg_add and remote packages

[Aleksey Cheusov <cheusov%tut.by@localhost>]

> * "in-place extraction", meaning the local package is extracted
> directly into ${LOCALBASE} and ${PKG_DBDIR} without using an
> intermediate directory to hold the contents of the "unpacked" package.
Ok. I didn't understand this correctly.

> This isn't "fetch to stdout | tar -xf -".  It's more like:

>     fetch to local_pkg.tgz
      do_all_checks_here
>     cat local_pkg.tgz | ( cd /usr/pkg; tar -zxf - )
      if error; then remove all partially extracted files; endif

How about last check?

> For comparison, IIRC, what currently happens is:

>     fetch to stdout | ( cd /var/tmp/inst.XXXXXX; tar -zxf - )
>     cd /var/tmp/inst.XXXXXX; tar -cf - * | ( cd /usr/pkg; tar -xf - )

get to stdout | ( cd /var/tmp/instmp.13735e; tar --use-compress-program gzip 
-vvxp -f - | tee /dev/stderr )"

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Best regards, Aleksey Cheusov.