[ale] sh archive

[Lightner, Jeff]

Yep - I just found sharutils on one of my RHEL5 systems.   Since we
don't use the EPEL for our systems it must come from one of the base or
extended RHEL repositories at RedHat.

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Geoffrey Myers
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 10:28 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] sh archive

Jim Kinney wrote:
> Where did you find shar? I wanted to look at it but it's just not part

> of the RHEL/Fedora tool chain.

Weird, I just checked my Red Hat Network and it shows sharutils comes 
with Red Hat.

> 
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Geoffrey Myers 
> <lists at serioustechnology.com <mailto:lists at serioustechnology.com>>
wrote:
> 
>     Derek Atkins wrote:
>      > Ed,
>      >
>      > Ed Cashin <ecashin at noserose.net <mailto:ecashin at noserose.net>>
>     writes:
>      >
>      >> That looks neat, but I don't have time to read it now, so I'm
>     wondering why
>      >> not use the existing "shar" utility.
>      >
>      > I believe the OP wanted more than just "unpack".  The
self-extracting
>      > code provided in the other link lets you write an arbitrary
>      > pre-install/post-install script that runs as part of the
>     installation!
>      > It's pretty sweet!  I've used that structure before and it's
quite
>      > powerful as a way to distribute programs.
> 
>     I actually was able to use shar to accomplish my goal.  I first
used
>     shar to create the archive of the data, then I hand edited the
shell
>     archive to perform the tasks I needed.  Worked like a charm.
> 
>      >
>      > [snip]
>      >
>      > -derek
>      >
>      >> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Jim Kinney
>     <jim.kinney at gmail.com <mailto:jim.kinney at gmail.com>> wrote:
>      >>
>      >>     This is what you are looking for:
>      >>
>      >>     http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1005818
>      >>
>      >>     Very slick and very, very useful.
>      >>
>      >>     Self-extracting bash script.
>      >>
>      >>     On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Geoffrey Myers <
>      >>     lists at serioustechnology.com
>     <mailto:lists at serioustechnology.com>> wrote:
>      >>
>      >>         So, I'm trying to simplify an install process for a
>     small group of
>      >>         developers.  I want them to be able to simply run a
>     script that
>      >>         contains
>      >>         the payload of software to be installed.
>      >>
>      >>         I recall being able to do this with something called a
>     shell archive?
>      >>
>      >>         It must be able to do more then just populate a
>     directory tree though.
>      >>
>      >>         Any suggestions???
>      >>
>      >>         --
>      >>         Until later, Geoffrey
>      >>
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under
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>     Until later, Geoffrey
> 
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