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Document the change in meaning of "-s foo:bar". It now means a single

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file or directory named "foo:bar".  If you want the old meaning,
use "-s foo -s bar" instead.
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.\" $NetBSD: postinstall.8,v 1.10 2008/05/03 09:44:46 apb Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: postinstall.8,v 1.11 2008/09/07 15:24:04 apb Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2005 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" Copyright (c) 2005-2008 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
.\"
.\" This code is derived from software contributed to The NetBSD Foundation
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.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.Dd May 3, 2008
.Dd September 7, 2008
.Dt POSTINSTALL 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -93,28 +93,22 @@ or
files from a binary distribution of
.Nx .
.It Fl s Ar tgzfile
The location of one or more set files
The location of a set file
(or
.Dq "tgz files" )
.Dq "tgz file" )
such as
.Pa etc.tgz
or
.Pa xetc.tgz
from a binary distribution of
.Nx .
Each set file is a compressed archive containing reference files.
More than one set file may be specified, either by
using a single
Each set file is a compressed archive containing reference files,
which will be extracted to the
.Pa temproot
directory.
Multiple
.Fl s
option with a colon-separated list of
.Ar tgzfile
names, or by using multiple
.Fl s
options; this is likely to be useful to specify the locations of both the
.Pa etc.tgz
and
.Pa xetc.tgz
set files.
Note that file names may not contain embedded colon
.Pq Ql \&:
characters, because that would conflict with the use of the colon
character to delimit multiple file names with a single argument.
options may be used to specify multiple set files.
.El
.El
.Pp
@ -167,3 +161,15 @@ The
.Nm
utility first appeared in
.Nx 1.6 .
.Pp
In
.Nx 4.0 ,
the
.Fl s Ar tgzfile
option was added.
.Pp
In
.Nx 5.0 ,
the the ability to specify multiple colon-separated files with a single
.Fl s
option was removed.