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[fcc02767] | 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 | ]>
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| 7 |
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| 8 | <sect1 id="ch-system-tar" role="wrap">
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| 9 | <?dbhtml filename="tar.html"?>
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| 10 |
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| 11 | <sect1info condition="script">
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| 12 | <productname>tar</productname>
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| 13 | <productnumber>&tar-version;</productnumber>
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| 14 | <address>&tar-url;</address>
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| 15 | </sect1info>
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| 16 |
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| 17 | <title>Tar-&tar-version;</title>
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| 18 |
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| 19 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-tar">
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| 20 | <primary sortas="a-Tar">Tar</primary>
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| 21 | </indexterm>
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| 22 |
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| 23 | <sect2 role="package">
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| 24 | <title/>
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| 25 |
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[6a156bab] | 26 | <para>The Tar package provides the ability to create tar archives as well
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| 27 | as perform various other kinds of archive manipulation. Tar can be used on
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[bc8cca5] | 28 | previously created archives to extract files, to store additional files, or
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| 29 | to update or list files which were already stored. </para>
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[fcc02767] | 30 |
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| 31 | <segmentedlist>
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| 32 | <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
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| 33 | <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
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| 34 |
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| 35 | <seglistitem>
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[fb386e0] | 36 | <seg>&tar-fin-sbu;</seg>
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| 37 | <seg>&tar-fin-du;</seg>
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[fcc02767] | 38 | </seglistitem>
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| 39 | </segmentedlist>
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| 40 |
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| 41 | </sect2>
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| 42 |
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| 43 | <sect2 role="installation">
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| 44 | <title>Installation of Tar</title>
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| 45 |
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| 46 | <para>Prepare Tar for compilation:</para>
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| 47 |
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| 48 | <screen><userinput remap="configure">FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1 \
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[d7a9421] | 49 | ./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
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[fcc02767] | 50 |
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| 51 | <variablelist>
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[6a156bab] | 52 | <title>The meaning of the configure option:</title>
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[fcc02767] | 53 |
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| 54 | <varlistentry>
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| 55 | <term><envar>FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1</envar></term>
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| 56 | <listitem>
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| 57 | <para>This forces the test for <function>mknod</function> to be run
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[34fe7e0] | 58 | as <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>.
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| 59 | It is generally considered dangerous to run this test as
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| 60 | the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user, but as it
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| 61 | is being run on a system that has only been
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[fcc02767] | 62 | partially built, overriding it is OK.</para>
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| 63 | </listitem>
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| 64 | </varlistentry>
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| 65 | </variablelist>
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| 66 |
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| 67 | <para>Compile the package:</para>
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| 68 |
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| 69 | <screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
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| 70 |
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[c2d2342] | 71 | <para>To test the results, issue:</para>
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[fcc02767] | 72 |
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| 73 | <screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
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| 74 |
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[075d35fb] | 75 | <para>One test, capabilities: binary store/restore, is known to fail if it is
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[a7a9d69] | 76 | run because LFS lacks selinux, but will be skipped if the host kernel does
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[22c36bb] | 77 | not support extended attributes or security labels on the filesystem
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| 78 | used for building LFS.</para>
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[fcc02767] | 79 |
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| 80 | <para>Install the package:</para>
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| 81 |
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| 82 | <screen><userinput remap="install">make install
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| 83 | make -C doc install-html docdir=/usr/share/doc/tar-&tar-version;</userinput></screen>
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| 84 |
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| 85 | </sect2>
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| 86 |
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| 87 |
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| 88 | <sect2 id="contents-tar" role="content">
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| 89 | <title>Contents of Tar</title>
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| 90 |
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| 91 | <segmentedlist>
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| 92 | <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
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| 93 | <segtitle>Installed directory</segtitle>
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| 94 |
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| 95 | <seglistitem>
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| 96 | <seg>tar</seg>
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| 97 | <seg>/usr/share/doc/tar-&tar-version;</seg>
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| 98 | </seglistitem>
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| 99 | </segmentedlist>
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| 100 |
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| 101 | <variablelist>
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| 102 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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| 103 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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| 104 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
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| 105 |
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| 106 | <varlistentry id="tar">
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| 107 | <term><command>tar</command></term>
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| 108 | <listitem>
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| 109 | <para>Creates, extracts files from, and lists the contents of archives,
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| 110 | also known as tarballs</para>
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| 111 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-tar tar">
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| 112 | <primary sortas="b-tar">tar</primary>
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| 113 | </indexterm>
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| 114 | </listitem>
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| 115 | </varlistentry>
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| 116 |
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| 117 | </variablelist>
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| 118 |
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| 119 | </sect2>
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| 120 |
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| 121 | </sect1>
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