pacoball8
Binary package support for paco(8).
Usage
pacoball [-bgftv]
[-d
DIR]
[-1..9]
[{-a | <packages>}]
pacoball -e
[-ltv]
[-C
DIR]
<pacoballs>
Overview
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.
Options
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-t, --test -
Test compressed file integrity.
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-h, --help -
Show usage information and exit.
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-v, --verbose -
Verbose output.
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-V, --version -
Display version information and exit.
Options
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-a, --all -
Create a pacoball for each package logged in the paco database.
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-d, --directory=DIR -
Create the pacoballs in directory DIR (default is '.').
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-b, --bzip2 -
Compress with bzip2 (this is the default).
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-g, --gzip -
Compress with gzip.
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-# -
Set the compression level (speed/quality balance). '#' is a number between 1 (faster compression) and 9 (best compression).
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--fast -
An alias for -1.
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--best -
An alias for -9.
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-f, --force -
Force overwrite of existing output files.
Options
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-e, --extract -
Extract (install) the given <pacoballs>, in directory '/' by default.
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-l, --log -
Log the file extraction with paco(8), retrieving the appropiate package name from the name of the pacoball.
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-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
Releases
Unchanged in 3 releases since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze).