My head scratching now is when uuencode/decode got dropped from the default install process. None of the RHEL5.5 systems have it excluded in the kickstarts and neither do the new fedora ones I'm building yet it is not part of the groups installed in the base.<br>
<br>Are we just getting old?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Michael H. Warfield <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mhw@wittsend.com">mhw@wittsend.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 10:13 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
> shar is not on any of the RHEL5/RHEL6/Fedora14/Fedora15alpha systems I've<br>
> checked. Nor is it in any package on any repo affiliated solidly with that<br>
> distro chain. However, I do always find tar, bash, sed and awk.<br>
<br>
</div>yum list sharutils<br>
<br>
sharutils.x86_64 4.10-1.fc14 @fedora<br>
<br>
sure (shar) looks like it's in the repos to me.<br>
<br>
Might not be installed on a default install but it's there (and<br>
obviously installed on my F14 system).<br>
<br>
It's in the RedHat / CentOS repos too...<br>
<br>
(CentOS 5.5)<br>
<br>
sharutils.x86_64 4.6.1-2 installed<br>
<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Mike<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
> At the point I don't I start looking for a file called ntkernel.exe so I can<br>
> delete it :-)<br>
><br>
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Ed Cashin <<a href="mailto:ecashin@noserose.net">ecashin@noserose.net</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> > That looks neat, but I don't have time to read it now, so I'm wondering why<br>
> > not use the existing "shar" utility.<br>
> ><br>
> > NAME<br>
> > shar - create shell archives<br>
> ><br>
> > SYNOPSIS<br>
> > shar [ options ] file ...<br>
> > shar -S [ options ]<br>
> ><br>
> > DESCRIPTION<br>
> > Shar creates "shell archives" (or shar files) which are in text<br>
> > format and can be mailed. These files may be unpacked later by<br>
> > executing them with /bin/sh. The resulting archive is sent to<br>
> > standard out unless the -o option is given. A wide range of fea-<br>
> > tures provide extensive flexibility in manufacturing shars and in<br>
> > specifying shar "smartness". Archives may be "vanilla" or compre-<br>
> > hensive.<br>
> ><br>
> > On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Jim Kinney <<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> ><br>
> >> This is what you are looking for:<br>
> >><br>
> >> <a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1005818" target="_blank">http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1005818</a><br>
> >><br>
> >> Very slick and very, very useful.<br>
> >><br>
> >> Self-extracting bash script.<br>
> >><br>
> >> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Geoffrey Myers <<br>
> >> <a href="mailto:lists@serioustechnology.com">lists@serioustechnology.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> >><br>
> >>> So, I'm trying to simplify an install process for a small group of<br>
> >>> developers. I want them to be able to simply run a script that contains<br>
> >>> the payload of software to be installed.<br>
> >>><br>
> >>> I recall being able to do this with something called a shell archive?<br>
> >>><br>
> >>> It must be able to do more then just populate a directory tree though.<br>
> >>><br>
> >>> Any suggestions???<br>
> >>><br>
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