2008/5/17 Peter Tribble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 12:57 AM, Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> pkg -d repo.tgz search /usr/bin/neatprogram
>>
>> ...and be told that the baz package has the file you're looking for.
>
> I would hope that would be
>
> pkg -d repo.zap search /usr/bin/neatprogram
>
> using my zap proposal for the file format. You really don't want to
> start gunzipping
> and untarring what might be a large file to query its metadata; you
> need a format
> where you can extract individual bits of data efficiently.

To be honest Peter, I had completely forgotten about zap.

I'll have to revisit that as part of my experimentations with using
the repository as a package.

Cheers,
-- 
Shawn Walker

"To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." -
Robert Orben
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