Arch Linux

vindicator

Member

Registered: 2016-02-25

Posts: 18

TAR Shipped Without Backup/Restore Scripts

I'm requesting that the backup/restore scripts in the tar source gets included in the tar package.

I was reading the "incremental" topic at gnu and was directed to view the "levels" topic at https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual … kup-Levels
There, I saw it mentioned that backup/restore scripts are included with tar.
However "$ pacman -Ql tar" did not show such scripts.

I downloaded/extracted the latest tar package and saw there is a scripts dir in it.

loqs

Member

Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 18,087

Re: TAR Shipped Without Backup/Restore Scripts

Please consider opening a feature request asking for the --enable-backup-scripts configure option be added to the tar package.
Edit:

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 2781295..912c4a6 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ prepare() {
 
 build() {
   cd $pkgname-$pkgver
-  ./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib/tar
+  ./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib/tar --sbindir=/usr/bin --enable-backup-scripts
   make
 }
 

Last edited by loqs (2023-08-27 12:41:46)