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