Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 23:49:38 -0700 (PDT) From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@nike.efn.org> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: Jean-Marc Zucconi <jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr>, gpalmer@freebsd.org, phk@critter.tfs.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: src/gnu Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960524234441.287j-100000@nike.efn.org> In-Reply-To: <199605240638.QAA13532@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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On Fri, 24 May 1996, Michael Smith wrote: > Jean-Marc Zucconi stands accused of saying: [...] > - put the tarball somewhere other than /usr/ports. It's not going to > change very often. Still means you need space for both the tarball and > the unpacked version. Perhaps we could have a 'lite' tarball with all > the irrelevant stuff diked out, but that would be work. why not use the -T parameter to tar? just keep a list of files that you need and just pass that file to tar? then you just do a line like EXTRACT_AFTER_ARGS = -T somefile then keep somefile with a list of the needed files... TTYL... [...] John-Mark gurney_j@efn.org http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Modem/FAX: (541) 683-6954 (FreeBSD Box) Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD (unix)
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