[BL] packages creation

John Beck john at johnbeck.org
Tue Aug 8 00:42:08 EDT 2006


I made an ssh package with scp/sftp/ssh. It's available at 
http://www.johnbeck.org/bl3

Please let me know if it doesn't work on your system or is buggy.

-john

3aoo-cvfd at dea.spamcon.org wrote:
> sindi keesan wrote:
>>> But what's so hard about doing "tar -zcvf" 
>>> from the / directory?
>  
>> That would package the entire filesystem, wouldn't it?
> 
> No, it would package whatever you specified.
> 
>> I put my packages in their own directories, such as
>> netpbmpkg, cd there, and then make the package with makepkg.
> 
> cd /
> tar -zcvf  mypackage.tgz  /path/to/netpbmpkg/*
> 
> Cheers,
> Steven
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> For BL3 packages without library symlinks I have used tar.
>> Does tar make symlinks?
>>
>> Have you any idea how a bad scsi controller could affect the file system 
>> such that even when you copied all the files to another non-scsi drive you 
>> still get fsck.ext2 fatal errors about signal 11 (segfault) when booting 
>> (but it boots) and wrong inode counts when you run e2fsck -b 8193 (but not 
>> without the -b 8193) every time after booting to it?  I thought inodes had 
>> nothing to do with the filesystem, they were in the partition table or 
>> something.  And BL3 complains about superblocks when booting (it does not 
>> have fsck.ext2) and also has bad inode counts after booting, which do not 
>> stay fixed.  I don't know how both linuxes could have been affected, 
>> except that I seem to have ended up with some BL3 files in BL2 /etc (maybe 
>> I copied them to the wrong place.)  However I overwrote all of /etc from a 
>> working BL2.
>> Sindi
>>
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