source: chapter06/tar.xml@ 9879b5d

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<sect1 id="ch-system-tar" role="wrap">
  <?dbhtml filename="tar.html"?>

  <sect1info condition="script">
    <productname>tar</productname>
    <productnumber>&tar-version;</productnumber>
    <address>&tar-url;</address>
  </sect1info>

  <title>Tar-&tar-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="ch-system-tar">
    <primary sortas="a-Tar">Tar</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title/>

    <para>The Tar package contains an archiving program.</para>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
      <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>&tar-ch6-sbu;</seg>
        <seg>&tar-ch6-du;</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Tar</title>

    <para>Prepare Tar for compilation:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="configure">FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1 ./configure --prefix=/usr \
   --bindir=/bin --libexecdir=/usr/sbin</userinput></screen>

    <variablelist>
      <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><envar>FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1</envar></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>This forces the test for <function>mknod</function> to be run
          as root.  It is generally considered dangerous to run this test as
          the root user, but as it is being run on an only partially built
          system, overriding it is OK.</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>

    <para>Compile the package:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>

    <para>To test the results (about 1 SBU), issue:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>

    <para>Install the package:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="install">make install
make -C doc install-html docdir=/usr/share/doc/tar-&tar-version;</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>


  <sect2 id="contents-tar" role="content">
    <title>Contents of Tar</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>rmt and tar</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="rmt">
        <term><command>rmt</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Remotely manipulates a magnetic
          tape drive through an interprocess communication connection</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-tar rmt">
            <primary sortas="b-rmt">rmt</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="tar">
        <term><command>tar</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Creates, extracts files from, and lists the contents of archives,
          also known as tarballs</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-tar tar">
            <primary sortas="b-tar">tar</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>