On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 08:42:36PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: > I am 99% sure that postinstall really just wants an unpacked etc.tgz and > xetc.tgz somehow.
There are two ways to use it. Assuming you have transfered all your sets to /tmp on the target machine: postinstall -s /tmp/etc.tgz -s /tmp/xetc.tgz -d / check or (which is very usefull on machines where unpacking takes serious time): mkdir /tmp/etc && cd /tmp/etc tar xpzf ../etc.tgz tar xpzf ../xetc.tgz postinstall -s /tmp/etc -d / check I usually do the latter, but split into two phases: extract etc/xetc, delete those two sets, then extract all the others onto the target root, then run postinstall with -s pointing to the previously extracted etc dir. Martin
