On Tuesday 01 September 2009 01:37:57 am David C. Rankin wrote:
Listmates,
I'm rebuilding tar-1.22 on 11.0 from the 1.19 spec file.
For those that would like to install xz on 11.0 and would like to build the new tar-1.22 rpms, the following spec file works fine, but note you will *not* get the tar man page installed in /usr/share/man/man1 and will have to copy tar.1.gz back into that directory to have a man page for it. Spec file: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/linux/apps/tar/tar.spec To build the new tar rpms for your system, just install the source rpm for tar 1.19 with "zypper si tar", download tar-1.22.tar.bz2 from the gnu website and put the package in /usr/src/packages/SOURCES, download the spec file above and put it in /usr/src/packages/SPECS/ (you could put it anywhere), then just execute "rpmbuild -bb /usr/src/packages/SPECS/tar.spec. Your new tar rpms will end up in /usr/src/packages/RPMS/{arch} 03:06 nemesis:~> ls -1 /usr/src/packages/RPMS/i586/ tar-1.22-66.6.i586.rpm tar-debuginfo-1.22-66.6.i586.rpm tar-debugsource-1.22-66.6.i586.rpm Then just install xz and you will have the option to use xz compression with tar via the "J" option and get file compression producing file sizes 50% smaller than with bzip2 in most cases. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org