Re: [gentoo-user] Question about making a tarball

[Dale]

Daniel Troeder wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 14:44 -0500, 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.
>>
> I do just
> # cd /mnt/gentoo
> # tar cjpf /somewhere/gentoo4.tar.bz2 .
>                                           ^ dot @ the end!
>
> Which produces a tarball containg everything under "." - which is the
> CWD -> ./bin ./boot ...and so on.
>
> Bye,
> Daniel
>
>

I have to confess, I am always in the root directory, as in /.  That
makes sense too.  I'll try to remember to try that next time.

Thanks

Dale

:-)  :-)