From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 24 23:47:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA13392 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 24 May 1996 23:47:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nike.efn.org (gurney_j@garcia.efn.org [198.68.17.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA13383; Fri, 24 May 1996 23:47:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gurney_j@localhost) by nike.efn.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA13662; Fri, 24 May 1996 23:49:39 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 23:49:38 -0700 (PDT) From: John-Mark Gurney Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney To: Michael Smith cc: Jean-Marc Zucconi , gpalmer@freebsd.org, phk@critter.tfs.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: src/gnu In-Reply-To: <199605240638.QAA13532@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 24 May 1996, Michael Smith wrote: > Jean-Marc Zucconi stands accused of saying: [...] > - put the tarball somewhere other than /usr/ports. It's not going to > change very often. Still means you need space for both the tarball and > the unpacked version. Perhaps we could have a 'lite' tarball with all > the irrelevant stuff diked out, but that would be work. why not use the -T parameter to tar? just keep a list of files that you need and just pass that file to tar? then you just do a line like EXTRACT_AFTER_ARGS = -T somefile then keep somefile with a list of the needed files... TTYL... [...] John-Mark gurney_j@efn.org http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Modem/FAX: (541) 683-6954 (FreeBSD Box) Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD (unix)