[HEADSUP] pkg(8) is now the only package management tool

[Matthew Seaman]

On 02/09/2014 03:20, Julian Elischer wrote:
> We did an experiment at work here and wrote a small script that parsed
> it and then rewrote it back to the package with newlines added and
> pkg handled it just fine, so it should be a very minor thing to add
> some newlines when generating it in the first place.
> I don't think anything else needs to be changed.

Have you tried looking at the output of 'pkg info -R pkgname' ?  I think
that should have as many new lines inserted as you could with for.

Yes, the +MANIFEST and similar files are minified by turning all
sequences of whitespace into single spaces.  It seems to make a
difference somewhere, although I'm not exactly clear where myself.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.
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