uncompressed .tar distfiles

[Ryan Schmidt]

> On Dec 18, 2016, at 4:26 AM, René J.V. Bertin <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I came across a distfile that's an uncompressed tar archive (justifiably so). Did I miss a convience method of deactivating the decompression stage or do I indeed have to do something like
> 
> extract.suffix      .tar
> extract.cmd         cat
> extract.pre_args
> 
> ?

You have to do something like that; there are a few ports that do that.