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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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