chapter06/tar.xml

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   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
  26     <para>The Tar package contains an archiving program.</para>
  27
  28     <segmentedlist>
  29       <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
  30       <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
  31
  32       <seglistitem>
  33         <seg>&tar-ch6-sbu;</seg>
  34         <seg>&tar-ch6-du;</seg>
  35       </seglistitem>
  36     </segmentedlist>
  37
  38   </sect2>
  39
  40   <sect2 role="installation">
  41     <title>Installation of Tar</title>
  42 <!--
  43     <para>Add a program that generates a man page for tar from the source code:</para>
  44
  45  <screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&tar-manpage-patch;</userinput></screen>
  46 -->
  47     <para>Prepare Tar for compilation:</para>
  48
  49 <screen><userinput remap="configure">FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1  \
  50 ./configure --prefix=/usr \
  51             --bindir=/bin</userinput></screen>
  52
  53     <variablelist>
  54       <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
  55
  56       <varlistentry>
  57         <term><envar>FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1</envar></term>
  58         <listitem>
  59           <para>This forces the test for <function>mknod</function> to be run
  60           as root.  It is generally considered dangerous to run this test as
  61           the root user, but as it is being run on a system that has only been
  62           partially built, overriding it is OK.</para>
  63         </listitem>
  64       </varlistentry>
  65     </variablelist>
  66
  67     <para>Compile the package:</para>
  68
  69 <screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
  70
  71     <para>To test the results (about 1 SBU), issue:</para>
  72
  73 <screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
  74
  75     <para>Install the package:</para>
  76
  77 <screen><userinput remap="install">make install
  78 make -C doc install-html docdir=/usr/share/doc/tar-&tar-version;</userinput></screen>
  79 <!--
  80     <para>Finally, generate the man page and place it in the proper location:</para>
  81
  82 <screen><userinput remap="install">perl tarman &gt; /usr/share/man/man1/tar.1</userinput></screen>
  83 -->
  84   </sect2>
  85
  86
  87   <sect2 id="contents-tar" role="content">
  88     <title>Contents of Tar</title>
  89
  90     <segmentedlist>
  91       <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
  92       <segtitle>Installed directory</segtitle>
  93
  94       <seglistitem>
  95         <seg>rmt and tar</seg>
  96         <seg>/usr/share/doc/tar-&tar-version;</seg>
  97       </seglistitem>
  98     </segmentedlist>
  99
 100     <variablelist>
 101       <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
 102       <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
 103       <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
 104
 105       <varlistentry id="rmt">
 106         <term><command>rmt</command></term>
 107         <listitem>
 108           <para>Remotely manipulates a magnetic
 109           tape drive through an interprocess communication connection</para>
 110           <indexterm zone="ch-system-tar rmt">
 111             <primary sortas="b-rmt">rmt</primary>
 112           </indexterm>
 113         </listitem>
 114       </varlistentry>
 115
 116       <varlistentry id="tar">
 117         <term><command>tar</command></term>
 118         <listitem>
 119           <para>Creates, extracts files from, and lists the contents of archives,
 120           also known as tarballs</para>
 121           <indexterm zone="ch-system-tar tar">
 122             <primary sortas="b-tar">tar</primary>
 123           </indexterm>
 124         </listitem>
 125       </varlistentry>
 126
 127     </variablelist>
 128
 129   </sect2>
 130
 131 </sect1>