Subject: Re: sh reads byte by byte
To: NetBSD User-Level Technical Discussion List <tech-userlevel@NetBSD.org>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@planix.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 02/25/2007 14:00:17
At Sun, 25 Feb 2007 01:41:13 +0100,
Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> 
> The point was (and the reason why I wanted to kill this part of the
> thread) that it should be integrated into pkg_install itself. The C
> version of Adrian will allow that, an awk script not that easily.

I was going to ask why rewrite it in C when a decent scripting language
would do the trick just as well, but that is a very good reason!  The
inside of that loop was just doing pkg_* things anyway.  I look forward
to pkg_install having this capability.

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