1 .\" Copyright (c) 2004 Dimitar Toshkov Zhekov
2 .TH BIZE 8 "15 Mar 2004"
4 bize \- ROCK-Linux .tar.bz2 package manager
6 .BI "bize -i [-t] [-v] [-f] [-R " root "] " package1.tar.bz2
9 .BI "bize -r [-t] [-v] [-f] [-R " root "] " package1 " ..."
12 is a shell script capable of installing, updating and removing
13 ROCK-Linux .tar.bz2 package files. It implements a subset of
17 .BR which " (or " type "), " sort ", " rm ", " rmdir ", "
18 .BR mkdir ", " tar " and " bzip2 ", and also " md5sum ", "
22 All these are standard programs present in any Linux system, but
24 checks for them on startup anyway.
26 The operating system must be able to remove files being in use.
27 All Linux systems have this ability.
29 The .tar.bz2 and .gem formats are not compatible. Packages
36 has not been tested with ROCK-Linux 1.6 or earlier. Some of the
37 ROCK-Linux 1.7.0+ targets produce .tar.bz2 packages only.
40 installs packages slightly faster than
42 and removes them about 25% faster (but see
44 More time is usually required to remove a package than to install
47 is, overall, about 15% faster than
49 Needless to say, your mileage may vary.
51 The .tar.bz2 packages are a bit smaller than the .gem packages and
52 are created a bit faster.
56 Install or update packages.
62 Test mode. Show what will happen without doing it.
68 Force removal/replacement of the modified files.
73 as root directory instead of
77 Terminate the option list.
80 will try to compute md5sum for any file with an md5sum entry,
81 even for devices and pipes. A normally built and installed ROCK-
82 Linux package includes md5sum entries for the regular files only.
85 doesn't make backups, because I don't like them (of course, any
86 modified files are preserved unless
90 makes backups, so this is listed as a bug.