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 -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org for public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
