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authorgdt <gdt@pkgsrc.org>2020-03-12 16:55:31 +0000
committergdt <gdt@pkgsrc.org>2020-03-12 16:55:31 +0000
commit2b46b3ff331f3372acaad0f75e801d7ad7cb2ad3 (patch)
tree8a043fdef105b491da4929a2f3444df7cbf4bb80 /mk/extract
parent3a8078dba66dcc14c49b927ce0ba6480b96803f0 (diff)
downloadpkgsrc-2b46b3ff331f3372acaad0f75e801d7ad7cb2ad3.tar.gz
extract.mk: Fix comment about nbtar
Maybe long ago nbtar was pkgsrc's pax-as-tar, but now this is just ${TOOL_PLATFORM.tar} which might be anything.
Diffstat (limited to 'mk/extract')
-rw-r--r--mk/extract/extract.mk6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mk/extract/extract.mk b/mk/extract/extract.mk
index fd94ad9071f..fd8bb79de0d 100644
--- a/mk/extract/extract.mk
+++ b/mk/extract/extract.mk
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# $NetBSD: extract.mk,v 1.38 2019/05/07 19:36:44 rillig Exp $
+# $NetBSD: extract.mk,v 1.39 2020/03/12 16:55:31 gdt Exp $
#
# The following variables may be set by the package Makefile and
# specify how extraction happens:
@@ -31,7 +31,9 @@
# EXTRACT_USING specifies the tool used to extract tar/ustar-format
# archives when using EXTRACT_CMD_DEFAULT. The possible values are
# "bsdtar", "gtar", "nbtar", and "pax".
-# By default, we use the "nbtar" tool (pkgsrc's pax-as-tar).
+# By default, we use the "nbtar", which means the value of
+# ${TOOL_PLATFORM.tar}, which is typically an arbitrary
+# implementation already found on the platform.
#
# EXTRACT_ELEMENTS is a list of files within the distfile to extract
# when using EXTRACT_CMD_DEFAULT. By default, this is empty, which