Re: Easy Guide / new tarball
On Sat, Oct 16, 1999 at 06:56:07PM -0400, John Tobey wrote:
> The 'tar' command in the Easy Guide seems wrong. On www.pick.ucam.org
> it's:
>
> tar -zxvpf --same-owner /path/to/tarball /gnu
>
> My tar wants --same-owner before -zxvpf. At
What you can do is:
tar -zxvpf /path/to/tarball --same-owner /gnu
> But the latest tarball (gnu-19991015.tar.gz) does not unpack into its
> own directory and does not contain a /gnu. (Every other *.tar.gz I've
> seen from GNU unpacks into a single directory, though for this
> purpose, that behavior is a little annoying.)
Mmmh. So how should I package the tar file? With the /gnu/ directory or
unpack everything in the current diretcory?
> This (from the GNU site's easy.html) seems to be no longer necessary:
>
> cd /gnu/dev
> rm *
> ln -s ../sbin/MAKEDEV /gnu/dev/MAKEDEV
Indeed. This only applies to gnu-19990104, which is very old.
> As I think somebody mentioned, the tarball needs sh -> bash,
Yep, a bug in cross-install (or in bash, whatever you prefer).
> and I
> couldn't see the network until I installed inetutils (replacing
> 1.3.2-7 with net/inetutils_1.3.2-7.deb according to dpkg).
This is strange. I will check some stuff when I am in university and cut a
new tar file.
> Apart from that things are working fine.
Thanks for testing!
Marcus
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