23:11:47 <marino> given that I found the cache of downloaded IPS files (this is omnios), how could I extract the contents of one of them?  Google says "pkgtrans" but that's not working at all.
23:16:26 <richlowe> the downloaded files are just zlib compressed and named for the hash of their content
23:16:38 <richlowe> there is no downloaded package, per se, unless you explicit generate a p5p archive
23:20:38 <marino> hmm. I tried gunzip against it
23:22:20 <marino> but for example, system/headers package -- it's one file that supposedly contains hundreds of files.  I'd like to do the equivalent of "tar -xf " and get everything extracted in place
23:26:44 <sommerfeld> pkgrecv --raw might be close to what you want.
23:30:39 <richlowe> Right the system/headers package is not "one file" at any point, unless you create that file yourself.  sommerfeld has the answer you probably want
23:34:12 <marino> the manifest associated with the file seems to be what I want
23:34:42 <marino> I know I could cherry pick the files listed in the manifest from the installed system but that's a pain I'm trying to avoid
23:34:51 <marino> let me check out pkgrecv
23:44:15 <marino> doh.  the file I am trying to manipulate *is* the manifest.  "file" said it was some assembly code but it's just text
23:45:03 <marino> making another attempt at getting the actual package