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 _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
