tar: Unrecognized archive format -- Ports error on FreeBSD 8.2, as of 2013-04-29
Hi, Chris!
The reason that this issue has come up for the mentioned port -- and no doubt has or will come up for more and more other ports, as well -- is because of this recent change to Mk/bsd.port.mk. Instead...
Long story short... Archive::Extract(3) expects the more common "InfoZIP" version of 'unzip' to be in the base system, while FreeBSD (since 8.0) has taken that name for its own lite version of the command.
*IF* having Archive::Extract work for typical .zip files is important to you or your...
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