[ale] sh archive

Geoffrey Myers lists at serioustechnology.com
Wed Apr 20 12:15:19 EDT 2011


Jim Kinney wrote:
> Ah HA!. Thanks! I did a yum search for shar but lost the package name in 
> the chaff (it seems LOTS of stuff is involved with SHARing in Linux!) 
> The sharutils is part of the standard Fedora repo but is not enstalled 
> by default (unless you need uuencode/uudecode - do people still download 
> pr0n from usenet?) .

shar uses uuencode/uudecode.

> 
> will poke at shar later to see how it works. I'm pretty sold on the 
> self-extracting tarball process as I've used it extensively in the past.
> 
> wget http://myupdateserver/updates_<date> | /bin/bash -x makes for an 
> easy way to push a gazillion specialty tweaks to a gazillion +1 machines 
> without the overhead of a spacewalk server.
> 
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Geoffrey Myers 
> <lists at serioustechnology.com <mailto:lists at serioustechnology.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Jim Kinney wrote:
>      > shar is not on any of the RHEL5/RHEL6/Fedora14/Fedora15alpha systems
>      > I've checked. Nor is it in any package on any repo affiliated solidly
>      > with that distro chain. However, I do always find tar, bash, sed
>     and awk.
>      >
>      > At the point I don't I start looking for a file called
>     ntkernel.exe so I
>      > can delete it :-)
> 
>     It comes with the sharutils rpm.  I'd be surprised if that's not
>     available with Red Hat, as it includes uuencode and uudecode.
> 
>     Might be an epel package, but I've yet to figure out how to determine
>     which repository it came from.
> 
>      >
>      > On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Ed Cashin <ecashin at noserose.net
>     <mailto:ecashin at noserose.net>
>      > <mailto:ecashin at noserose.net <mailto:ecashin at noserose.net>>> wrote:
>      >
>      >     That looks neat, but I don't have time to read it now, so I'm
>      >     wondering why not use the existing "shar" utility.
>      >
>      >     NAME
>      >            shar - create shell archives
>      >
>      >     SYNOPSIS
>      >            shar [ options ] file ...
>      >            shar -S [ options ]
>      >
>      >     DESCRIPTION
>      >            Shar  creates  "shell  archives" (or shar files) which
>     are in
>      >     text
>      >            format and can be mailed.  These files may be  unpacked
>      >      later  by
>      >            executing  them  with  /bin/sh.   The resulting archive is
>      >     sent to
>      >            standard out unless the -o option is given.  A wide
>     range of
>      >      fea-
>      >            tures  provide extensive flexibility in manufacturing
>     shars
>      >     and in
>      >            specifying shar "smartness".  Archives may be "vanilla" or
>      >     compre-
>      >            hensive.
>      >
>      >     On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Jim Kinney
>     <jim.kinney at gmail.com <mailto:jim.kinney at gmail.com>
>      >     <mailto:jim.kinney at gmail.com <mailto:jim.kinney at gmail.com>>>
>     wrote:
>      >
>      >         This is what you are looking for:
>      >
>      >         http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1005818
>      >
>      >         Very slick and very, very useful.
>      >
>      >         Self-extracting bash script.
>      >
>      >         On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Geoffrey Myers
>      >         <lists at serioustechnology.com
>     <mailto:lists at serioustechnology.com>
>      >         <mailto:lists at serioustechnology.com
>     <mailto:lists at serioustechnology.com>>> wrote:
>      >
>      >             So, I'm trying to simplify an install process for a small
>      >             group of
>      >             developers.  I want them to be able to simply run a
>     script
>      >             that contains
>      >             the payload of software to be installed.
>      >
>      >             I recall being able to do this with something called
>     a shell
>      >             archive?
>      >
>      >             It must be able to do more then just populate a directory
>      >             tree though.
>      >
>      >             Any suggestions???
>      >
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Until later, Geoffrey

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the pretense of taking care of them."
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