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Last change on this file since 84e402e was e1153ea, checked in by Jim Gifford <clfs@…>, 18 years ago

r3371@server (orig r1554): chris | 2006-05-10 14:03:44 -0700
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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
3  "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/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
23  </sect2>
24
25  <sect2 role="installation">
26    <title>Installation of Tar</title>
27
28<para os="p1">Apply a patch to fix some issues with the test suite when using
29GCC-&gcc-version;:</para>
30
31<screen os="p2"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&tar-gcc4_fix-patch;</userinput></screen>
32
33    <para os="p3">Tar has a bug when the <option>-S</option> option is used with
34    files larger than 4 GB. The following patch properly fixes this issue:</para>
35
36<screen os="p4"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&tar-sparse_fix-patch;</userinput></screen>
37
38    <para os="p5">This patch fixes a security vulnerability in Tar:</para>
39
40<screen os="p6"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&tar-security_fixes-patch;</userinput></screen>
41
42    <para os="a">Prepare Tar for compilation:</para>
43
44<screen os="b"><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin --libexecdir=/usr/sbin</userinput></screen>
45
46    <para os="c">Compile the package:</para>
47
48<screen os="d"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
49
50    <para os="e">To test the results, issue:
51    <userinput>make check</userinput>.</para>
52
53    <para os="f">Install the package:</para>
54
55<screen os="g"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
56
57  </sect2>
58
59  <sect2 id="contents-tar" role="content">
60    <title>Contents of Tar</title>
61
62    <segmentedlist>
63      <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
64
65      <seglistitem>
66        <seg>rmt and tar</seg>
67      </seglistitem>
68    </segmentedlist>
69
70    <variablelist>
71      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
72      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
73      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
74
75      <varlistentry id="rmt">
76        <term><command>rmt</command></term>
77        <listitem>
78          <para>Remotely manipulates a magnetic
79          tape drive through an interprocess communication connection</para>
80          <indexterm zone="ch-system-tar rmt">
81            <primary sortas="b-rmt">rmt</primary>
82          </indexterm>
83        </listitem>
84      </varlistentry>
85
86      <varlistentry id="tar">
87        <term><command>tar</command></term>
88        <listitem>
89          <para>Creates, extracts files from, and lists the contents of
90          archives, also known as tarballs</para>
91          <indexterm zone="ch-system-tar tar">
92            <primary sortas="b-tar">tar</primary>
93          </indexterm>
94        </listitem>
95      </varlistentry>
96
97    </variablelist>
98
99  </sect2>
100
101</sect1>
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