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[fcc02767]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 <sect1info condition="script">
12 <productname>tar</productname>
13 <productnumber>&tar-version;</productnumber>
14 <address>&tar-url;</address>
15 </sect1info>
16
17 <title>Tar-&tar-version;</title>
18
19 <indexterm zone="ch-system-tar">
20 <primary sortas="a-Tar">Tar</primary>
21 </indexterm>
22
23 <sect2 role="package">
24 <title/>
25
[6a156bab]26 <para>The Tar package provides the ability to create tar archives as well
27 as perform various other kinds of archive manipulation. Tar can be used on
[bc8cca5]28 previously created archives to extract files, to store additional files, or
29 to update or list files which were already stored. </para>
[fcc02767]30
31 <segmentedlist>
32 <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
33 <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
34
35 <seglistitem>
[fb386e0]36 <seg>&tar-fin-sbu;</seg>
37 <seg>&tar-fin-du;</seg>
[fcc02767]38 </seglistitem>
39 </segmentedlist>
40
41 </sect2>
42
43 <sect2 role="installation">
44 <title>Installation of Tar</title>
45
46 <para>Prepare Tar for compilation:</para>
47
48<screen><userinput remap="configure">FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1 \
49./configure --prefix=/usr \
50 --bindir=/bin</userinput></screen>
51
52 <variablelist>
[6a156bab]53 <title>The meaning of the configure option:</title>
[fcc02767]54
55 <varlistentry>
56 <term><envar>FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1</envar></term>
57 <listitem>
58 <para>This forces the test for <function>mknod</function> to be run
59 as root. It is generally considered dangerous to run this test as
60 the root user, but as it is being run on a system that has only been
61 partially built, overriding it is OK.</para>
62 </listitem>
63 </varlistentry>
64 </variablelist>
65
66 <para>Compile the package:</para>
67
68<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
69
70 <para>To test the results (about 3 SBU), issue:</para>
71
72<screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
73
[c8fd7fe]74 <para>One test, capabilities: binary store/restore, is known to fail.</para>
[fcc02767]75
76 <para>Install the package:</para>
77
78<screen><userinput remap="install">make install
79make -C doc install-html docdir=/usr/share/doc/tar-&tar-version;</userinput></screen>
80
81 </sect2>
82
83
84 <sect2 id="contents-tar" role="content">
85 <title>Contents of Tar</title>
86
87 <segmentedlist>
88 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
89 <segtitle>Installed directory</segtitle>
90
91 <seglistitem>
92 <seg>tar</seg>
93 <seg>/usr/share/doc/tar-&tar-version;</seg>
94 </seglistitem>
95 </segmentedlist>
96
97 <variablelist>
98 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
99 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
100 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
101
102 <varlistentry id="tar">
103 <term><command>tar</command></term>
104 <listitem>
105 <para>Creates, extracts files from, and lists the contents of archives,
106 also known as tarballs</para>
107 <indexterm zone="ch-system-tar tar">
108 <primary sortas="b-tar">tar</primary>
109 </indexterm>
110 </listitem>
111 </varlistentry>
112
113 </variablelist>
114
115 </sect2>
116
117</sect1>
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