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Clean up the english a little, having made the mistake of reading it.

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Jordan K. Hubbard 1996-08-20 21:27:18 +00:00
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@ -99,9 +99,10 @@ by this flag. Note that only the first
directive will be replaced, since
.Nm
has no way of knowing which directory settings are relative and
which are absolute. It is rare, in any case, to see more than one
directory transition made, but when such is the case you
may then wish to look into the use of the
which are absolute. It is rare in any case to see more than one
directory transition made, but when such does happen and you wish
to have control over *all* directory transitions, then you
may then wish to look into the use of
.Cm MASTER
and
.Cm SLAVE
@ -167,7 +168,8 @@ in the staging area, the location of which is read as a string
from stdin. The complete packing list is also read from stdin,
and the contents then acted on as normal.
.El
On or more
.Pp
One or more
.Ar pkg-name
arguments may be specified, each being either a file containing the
package (these usually ending with the ``.tgz'' suffix) or a
@ -196,7 +198,7 @@ ftp.
.Sh TECHNICAL DETAILS
.Nm
is fairly simple. It extracts each packages' "packing list"
into a special staging directory in /tmp (or $PKG_TMPDIR), parses it,
into a special staging directory in /tmp (or $PKG_TMPDIR if set), parses it,
then runs through the following sequence to fully extract the contents:
.Bl -enum -indent indent
.It
@ -229,27 +231,28 @@ file (see
.Xr pkg_create 1 ),
then execute it with the following arguments:
.Bd -filled -offset indent -compact
.Ar <pkg-name>
.Ar pkg-name
.Ar INSTALL
.Ed
where
.Ar <pkg-name>
is the name of the package in question and
.Ar pkg-name
is the name of the package in question and the
.Ar INSTALL
is simply a keyword denoting that this is an installation requirements check.
keyword denotes this as an installation requirements check (useful if
you want to have one script serving multiple functions).
.It
If an
.Ar install
script exists for the package, it is then executed with the following arguments:
.Bd -filled -offset indent -compact
.Ar <pkg-name>
.Ar pkg-name
.Ar PRE-INSTALL
.Ed
where
.Ar <pkg-name>
.Ar pkg-name
is the name of the package in question and
.Ar PRE-INSTALL
is a keyword denoting that this is the preinstallation phase.
is a keyword denoting this as the preinstallation phase.
.It
If
.Cm @option extract-in-place
@ -260,11 +263,9 @@ the staging area into their final locations.
.It
If the package contains an
.Ar mtreefile
file (see the
.Fl m
option to
file (see
.Xr pkg_create 1 ),
then mtree is invoked as
then mtree is invoked as:
.Bd -filled -offset indent -compact
.Cm mtree
.Fl u
@ -289,8 +290,8 @@ If an
.Ar install
script exists for the package, it is then executed as
.Bd -filled -offset indent -compact
.Cm <script>
.Ar <pkg-name>
.Cm script
.Ar pkg-name
.Ar POST-INSTALL
.Ed
This all allows you to write a single
@ -333,9 +334,9 @@ flag to
.Sh AUTHORS
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
.It "Jordan Hubbard"
most of the work
Initial work and ongoing development.
.It "John Kohl"
refined it for NetBSD
NetBSD refinements.
.El
.Sh BUGS
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