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Last change on this file since ea14853 was 2e80ff1, checked in by Ken Moffat <ken@…>, 17 years ago

Update to tar-1.17, fixes #2029.

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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-system-tar" role="wrap">
9 <?dbhtml filename="tar.html"?>
10
11 <title>Tar-&tar-version;</title>
12
13 <indexterm zone="ch-system-tar">
14 <primary sortas="a-Tar">Tar</primary>
15 </indexterm>
16
17 <sect2 role="package">
18 <title/>
19
20 <para>The Tar package contains an archiving program.</para>
21
22 <segmentedlist>
23 <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
24 <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
25
26 <seglistitem>
27 <seg>&tar-ch6-sbu;</seg>
28 <seg>&tar-ch6-du;</seg>
29 </seglistitem>
30 </segmentedlist>
31
32 </sect2>
33
34 <sect2 role="installation">
35 <title>Installation of Tar</title>
36
37 <para os="a">One of the tests in the testsuite (number 12, exclude) fails,
38 at least on recent linux systems, because the output needs to be sorted
39 before it is diffed. If you are going to run the testsuite, fix this by
40 applying the following patch before you configure: </para>
41
42<screen os="b"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&tar-sort-exclude-test-patch;</userinput></screen>
43
44 <para>Prepare Tar for compilation:</para>
45
46<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin --libexecdir=/usr/sbin</userinput></screen>
47
48 <para>Compile the package:</para>
49
50<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
51
52 <para>To test the results, issue:
53 <userinput>make check</userinput>.</para>
54
55 <para>Install the package:</para>
56
57<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
58
59 </sect2>
60
61
62 <sect2 id="contents-tar" role="content">
63 <title>Contents of Tar</title>
64
65 <segmentedlist>
66 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
67
68 <seglistitem>
69 <seg>rmt and tar</seg>
70 </seglistitem>
71 </segmentedlist>
72
73 <variablelist>
74 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
75 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
76 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
77
78 <varlistentry id="rmt">
79 <term><command>rmt</command></term>
80 <listitem>
81 <para>Remotely manipulates a magnetic
82 tape drive through an interprocess communication connection</para>
83 <indexterm zone="ch-system-tar rmt">
84 <primary sortas="b-rmt">rmt</primary>
85 </indexterm>
86 </listitem>
87 </varlistentry>
88
89 <varlistentry id="tar">
90 <term><command>tar</command></term>
91 <listitem>
92 <para>Creates, extracts files from, and lists the contents of archives,
93 also known as tarballs</para>
94 <indexterm zone="ch-system-tar tar">
95 <primary sortas="b-tar">tar</primary>
96 </indexterm>
97 </listitem>
98 </varlistentry>
99
100 </variablelist>
101
102 </sect2>
103
104</sect1>
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