PACOBALL(8)
NAME
pacoball - Binary package support for paco(8).
SYNOPSIS
pacoball [-bgftv] [-d DIR] [-1..9] [-a|<packages>] pacoball -e [-ltv] [-C DIR] <pacoballs>
DESCRIPTION
By default, pacoball may be given one or more package names as arguments, and for each of those packages it creates a binary tarball
(.tar.bz2 or .tar.gz) containing all the currently installed files. For
this to work the input packages have to be registered in the paco database.
Leading slashes ('/') are stripped from the paths of the files in the
tarballs.
With option -e, pacoball admits one or more previously created tarballs
("pacoballs") as arguments, and installs them into the system, optionally logging the installation with paco.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options
too.
GENERAL OPTIONS
- -t, --test
- Test compressed file integrity.
- -h, --help
- Show usage information and exit.
- -v, --verbose
- Verbose output.
- -V, --version
- Display version information and exit.
PACKAGE CREATION OPTIONS
- -a, --all
- Create a pacoball for each package logged in the paco database.
- -d, --directory=DIR
- Create the pacoballs in directory DIR (default is '.').
- -b, --bzip2
- Compress with bzip2 (this is the default).
- -g, --gzip
- Compress with gzip.
- -# Set the compression level (speed/quality balance). '#' is a num
- ber between 1 (faster compression) and 9 (best compression).
- --fast An alias for -1.
- --best An alias for -9.
- -f, --force
- Force overwrite of existing output files.
PACKAGE EXTRACTION OPTIONS
- -e, --extract
- Extract (install) the given <pacoballs>, in directory '/' by default.
- -l, --log
- Log the file extraction with paco(8), retrieving the appropiate package name from the name of the pacoball.
- -C, --root=DIR
- Extract the files into directory DIR (as the -C option in tar).
FILES
/etc/pacorc - paco configuration file
/var/log/paco - default paco log directory
WEB SITE
- The latest version of pacoball should be always available at:
- http://paco.sourceforge.net
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2004-2009 David Rosal <davidrr@sourceforge.net>
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is
NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE.