GNU tar installation?
Gene Heskett
gene.heskett at verizon.net
Tue Jan 25 18:24:48 UTC 2005
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 09:48, Craig White wrote:
>On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 15:37 +0100, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
>> On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 09:29 -0500, Leonard Isham wrote:
>> > On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 15:06:30 +0100, Erik P. Olsen <erik at epo.dk>
wrote:
>> > > Excuse me for asking a newbie question, but I am a little
>> > > uneasy about what to do.
>> > >
>> > > I am running FC3 which comes with GNU tar version 1.14.
This version of tar is known to be broken when used as amanda uses it.
1.13-19 and 1.13-25 both work just fine, as does the new 1.15-1.
>> > > I plan
>> > > to upgrade it to version 1.15.1 which comes in tar format
>> > > only. What is the recommended way of installing it? Should I
>> > > remove it first and risk that the installation may require tar
>> > > processing?
It will install in /usr/local/bin whereas the 1.14 is in /bin, all you
need to do is rebuild amanda to point to it. I'm running 1.15-1 with
amanda and am not having any problems not of my own doing, like a
faulty exclude file. You can rpm -e the rpm of tar-1.14 if you'd
like.
>> >
>> > Take a moment and think about this.
>> >
>> > 1. You want to upgrade tar
>> > 2. The new version of tar comes as a tarball
>> > 3. If you delete/remove tar then how are you going to read the
>> > tarball?
>>
>> I have no problem in untaring the tarball.
>>
>> > 4. Download the new tar's tarball and untar it look at the
>> > documentation and determine how you wat to proceed from there.
>>
>> Sorry, I shouldn't have asked the question. I was just looking for
>> a friendly advice.
>
>----
>you can install it in /usr/local and have amanda use that version
> and leave the rpm (and the default installation) alone.
>
>Craig
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