source: final-system/common/tar.xml@ 267bba4

Last change on this file since 267bba4 was 0f06076, checked in by Jim Gifford <clfs@…>, 19 years ago

r3371@server (orig r1554): chris | 2006-05-10 14:03:44 -0700
Removed dependency info from individual package instructions

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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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