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NAME¶
porgball - Binary package support for porg(8).SYNOPSIS¶
porgball [OPTIONS] [-a|<packages>]porgball -e [OPTIONS] <porgballs>
DESCRIPTION¶
By default, porgball may be given one or more package names as arguments, and for each of those packages it creates a binary tarball containing all the currently installed files. For this to work the packages have to be registered in the porg database.Leading slashes ('/') are stripped from the paths of the files in the tarballs, so they can be extracted into user-defined directories.
With option -e, porgball admits one or more previously created tarballs ("porgballs") as arguments, and installs them into the system, optionally logging the installation with porg(8).
Note: Options cannot be joined up, for instance: '-af' is not correct, type '-a -f' instead.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
GENERAL OPTIONS¶
- -h, --help
- Show usage information and exit.
- -v, --verbose
- Explain what is being done.
- -V, --version
- Print version information and exit.
- -L, --logdir=DIR
- Porg log directory. Default is '/var/lib/porg', unless option LOGDIR is set in porgrc(5).
PORGBALL CREATION OPTIONS¶
- -a, --all
- Create a porgball for each package logged in the porg database.
- -X, --exact-version
- Disable expansion of package version.
By default, porgball automatically expands the package names given as arguments, by adding all the versions of the package that are registered in the porg database.
The option -X inhibits this expansion, so that package names must match the basename and the whole version of a registered package. - -d, --directory=DIR
- Create the porgballs in directory DIR (default is '.').
- -g, --gzip
- Compress with gzip (default).
- -b, --bzip2
- Compress with bzip2.
- -x, --xz
- Compress with xz.
- -#
- Set the compression level (speed/quality balance). '#' is a number between 1 (faster compression) and 9 (best compression). Default is 9.
- --fast
- An alias for -1.
- --best
- An alias for -9.
- -f, --force
- Force overwrite of existing output files.
- -t, --test
- Test intergity of the porgball after creating it.
- -n, --no-porg-suffix
- Do not append '.porg' suffix to the name of the porgballs. For instance, create 'foo-1.0.tar.gz' instead of 'foo-1.0.porg.tar.gz'.
PORGBALL EXTRACTION OPTIONS¶
- -e, --extract
- Extract (install) the given porgballs, in directory '/' by default.
- -l, --log
- Log the file extraction with porg, retrieving the appropriate package name from the name of the porgball.
- -d, --directory=DIR
- Extract the files into directory DIR (as the option -C in tar).
FILES¶
/etc/porgrc - porg configuration file/var/lib/porg - default porg log directory
AUTHOR¶
Written by David Ricart (http://porg.sourceforge.net)SEE ALSO¶
porg(8), porgrc(5)| 17 May 2016 | porg 0.10 |