10.52. Tar-1.21

The Tar package contains an archiving program.

10.52.1. Installation of Tar

The following patch add a man page for tar:

patch -Np1 -i ../tar-1.21-man_page-1.patch

The following patch contains a fix for an issue that may occur when tar calls an outside compression utility like bzip2:

patch -Np1 -i ../tar-1.21-revert_pipe_drain-1.patch

Prepare Tar for compilation:

./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin --libexecdir=/usr/sbin

Compile the package:

make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Install the package:

make install

Installed programs: rmt and tar

rmt	Remotely manipulates a magnetic tape drive through an interprocess communication connection
tar	Creates, extracts files from, and lists the contents of archives, also known as tarballs