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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
<!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
%general-entities;
]>
<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>&tar-ch6-sbu;</seg>
<seg>&tar-ch6-du;</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>
<?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
<?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
<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>
</sect1>
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