star from schilytools-2024-03-21

Introduction to star from schilytools

Due to various upstream-acknowledged issues in heirloom-ng tar, it is preferred to use a different SVR4-compatible tar implementation. This package is exactly that.

[Note]

Note

This may take a while to build. Feel free to do something else while this is building.

Package Information

Installation of star from schilytools

Compile star by running the following command:

make

Now, as the root user, install star and the supplementary tools:

install -v -m755 -d /usr/5bin &&
install -v -m755 star/OBJ/*/star /usr/5bin &&
install -v -m755 star_sym/OBJ/*/star_sym /usr/5bin &&
install -v -m755 tartest/OBJ/*/tartest /usr/5bin &&
install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/man/5man/man1 &&
install -v -m644 star/star.1 /usr/share/man/5man/man1 &&
install -v -m644 star_sym/star_sym.1 /usr/share/man/5man/man1 &&
install -v -m644 tartest/tartest.1 /usr/share/man/5man/man1

Contents

Installed Programs: star, star_sym, and tartest
Installed Libraries: None
Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

star

is the tape archiver

star_sym

converts an inode database into a human-readable format

tartest

tests a tar archive for POSIX.1-1990 compliance