[ale] sh archive
Geoffrey Myers
lists at serioustechnology.com
Wed Apr 20 15:27:31 EDT 2011
Jim Kinney wrote:
> My head scratching now is when uuencode/decode got dropped from the
> default install process. None of the RHEL5.5 systems have it excluded in
> the kickstarts and neither do the new fedora ones I'm building yet it is
> not part of the groups installed in the base.
>
> Are we just getting old?
Yes.
>
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Michael H. Warfield <mhw at wittsend.com
> <mailto:mhw at wittsend.com>> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 10:13 -0400, 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.
>
> yum list sharutils
>
> sharutils.x86_64 4.10-1.fc14 @fedora
>
> sure (shar) looks like it's in the repos to me.
>
> Might not be installed on a default install but it's there (and
> obviously installed on my F14 system).
>
> It's in the RedHat / CentOS repos too...
>
> (CentOS 5.5)
>
> sharutils.x86_64 4.6.1-2 installed
>
>
> Regards,
> Mike
>
> > At the point I don't I start looking for a file called
> ntkernel.exe so I can
> > delete it :-)
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Ed Cashin <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>> 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>> 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???
> > >>>
> > >>> --
> > >>> Until later, Geoffrey
> > >>>
> > >>> "I predict future happiness for America if they can prevent
> > >>> the government from wasting the labors of the people under
> > >>> the pretense of taking care of them."
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Until later, Geoffrey
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