Dale wrote:
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
Dale wrote:
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
Dale wrote:
I try to keep a "up to date" stage 4 tarball here in my system just in
case. I basically did the creation just like I would if I were booted
from the CD. I created /mnt/gentoo/ on my system, extracted a stage 3
there, then chroot in and create a stage 4 tarball. I have one weird
thing tho that has me confused. When it creates the stage 4
tarball, it
is in /mnt/gentoo. Today I unpacked the stage 4 so that I could
update
it and when I do a tar xjpf stage4 -C /mnt/gentoo, it actually looks
like this, /mnt/gentoo/mnt/gentoo/ which is not what I am looking
for. It doesn't matter on a running system, but it would if I were
trying to
rescue myself.
How do I tell tar when I am making the tarball to look at /mnt/gentoo/
as it start point, root directory if you will? I read the man page
but
suspect I am missing it somewhere. There has to be a way since it is
done that way for the stage 3 tarball.
You strip the leading directory during extraction using the
"--strip=1" option ("1" means "strip 1 leading directory", which will
ignore "gentoo/" during extraction.)
OK. That makes sense, sort of. How do the people that make the stage3
tarball do it? When I extract a stage3 tarball, it doesn't have
/mnt/gentoo on it at all. Are they using a "dedicated" install to build
those tarballs on?
Also, since I want it to ignore /mnt/gentoo, wouldn't I have to use
--strip=2 to remove both /mnt and the /gentoo after that? Just trying
to make sure I understand this correctly.
I would like to do this on the creating part if possible.
To do this on creation, you can do use "-C /mnt/gentoo ." as options
(translate: package the current directory of /mnt/gentoo). The
top-level directory of the tarball will then be "./".
I tried this but it didn't like it very much:
r...@smoker / # tar -cjfvp /data/Gentoo-stuff/stage4-x86-04-2009.bz2 -C
/mnt/gentoo/
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
tar: /data/Gentoo-stuff/stage4-x86-04-2009.bz2: Cannot stat: No such
file or directory
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
r...@smoker / #
I also tried reversing the thing, thought maybe I had it backwards, but
it didn't like that either. Maybe I'm getting to old for learning new
tricks. LOL
Where am I wrong here?
1) Better use -cjvpf ("f") takes an argument (the filename of that tar
to be crated) so it must be at the end.
2) You are forgetting the dot (= current directory) at the end of the
command:
tar -cjpf /data/Gentoo-stuff/stage4-x86-04-2009.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/gentoo .
