lfs-book/chapter06/tar.xml

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<sect1 id="ch-system-tar" role="wrap">
  <?dbhtml filename="tar.html"?>

  <title>Tar-&tar-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="ch-system-tar">
    <primary sortas="a-Tar">Tar</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title/>

    <para>The Tar package contains an archiving program.</para>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
      <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>0.2 SBU</seg>
        <seg>12.7 MB</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>Bash, Bzip2, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Gettext,
        Glibc, Gzip, Grep, Make, Patch, and Sed</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Tar</title>

    <para>Apply a patch to fix some issues with the test suite when using
    GCC-&gcc-version;:</para>

<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&tar-gcc4_fix-patch;</userinput></screen>

    <para>Tar has a bug when the <parameter>-S</parameter> option is used
    with files larger than 4 GB. The following patch properly fixes this
    issue:</para>

<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&tar-sparse_fix-patch;</userinput></screen>

    <para>Recent versions of tar are vulnerable to a buffer overflow from
    specially crafted archives. The following patch addresses this:</para>

<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&tar-security_fixes-patch;</userinput></screen>

    <para>Prepare Tar for compilation:</para>

<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin --libexecdir=/usr/sbin</userinput></screen>

    <para>Compile the package:</para>

<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>

    <para>To test the results, issue:
    <userinput>make check</userinput>.</para>

    <para>Install the package:</para>

<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>


  <sect2 id="contents-tar" role="content">
    <title>Contents of Tar</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>rmt and tar</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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      <varlistentry id="rmt">
        <term><command>rmt</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Remotely manipulates a magnetic
          tape drive through an interprocess communication connection</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-tar rmt">
            <primary sortas="b-rmt">rmt</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="tar">
        <term><command>tar</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Creates, extracts files from, and lists the contents of archives,
          also known as tarballs</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-tar tar">
            <primary sortas="b-tar">tar</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

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