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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Tue, 8 Aug 2006 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > I could not find a man page for pkg online
>
> pkg is just a bash script I wrote myself.
>
> > but maybe there is a switch to make it create
> > packages like makepkg.
>
> No there isn't.  But what's so hard about doing
> "tar -zcvf" from the / directory?

That would package the entire filesystem, wouldn't it?
I put my packages in their own directories, such as
netpbmpkg, cd there, and then make the package with makepkg.

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