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 number 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 <[email protected]>

This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

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