[ale] sh archive

Geoffrey Myers lists at serioustechnology.com
Wed Apr 20 15:27:31 EDT 2011


Jim Kinney wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Are we just getting old?

Yes.

> 
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Michael H. Warfield <mhw at wittsend.com 
> <mailto:mhw at wittsend.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 10:13 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
>      > shar is not on any of the RHEL5/RHEL6/Fedora14/Fedora15alpha
>     systems I've
>      > checked. Nor is it in any package on any repo affiliated solidly
>     with that
>      > distro chain. However, I do always find tar, bash, sed and awk.
> 
>     yum list sharutils
> 
>     sharutils.x86_64             4.10-1.fc14                   @fedora
> 
>     sure (shar) looks like it's in the repos to me.
> 
>     Might not be installed on a default install but it's there (and
>     obviously installed on my F14 system).
> 
>     It's in the RedHat / CentOS repos too...
> 
>     (CentOS 5.5)
> 
>     sharutils.x86_64             4.6.1-2                       installed
> 
> 
>     Regards,
>     Mike
> 
>      > At the point I don't I start looking for a file called
>     ntkernel.exe so I can
>      > delete it :-)
>      >
>      > On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Ed Cashin <ecashin at noserose.net
>     <mailto:ecashin at noserose.net>> wrote:
>      >
>      > > That looks neat, but I don't have time to read it now, so I'm
>     wondering why
>      > > not use the existing "shar" utility.
>      > >
>      > > NAME
>      > >        shar - create shell archives
>      > >
>      > > SYNOPSIS
>      > >        shar [ options ] file ...
>      > >        shar -S [ options ]
>      > >
>      > > DESCRIPTION
>      > >        Shar  creates  "shell  archives" (or shar files) which
>     are in text
>      > >        format and can be mailed.  These files may be  unpacked
>      later  by
>      > >        executing  them  with  /bin/sh.   The resulting archive
>     is sent to
>      > >        standard out unless the -o option is given.  A wide
>     range of  fea-
>      > >        tures  provide extensive flexibility in manufacturing
>     shars and in
>      > >        specifying shar "smartness".  Archives may be "vanilla"
>     or compre-
>      > >        hensive.
>      > >
>      > > 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
>      > >>>
>      > >>> "I predict future happiness for America if they can prevent
>      > >>> the government from wasting the labors of the people under
>      > >>> the pretense of taking care of them."
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Until later, Geoffrey

"I predict future happiness for America if they can prevent
the government from wasting the labors of the people under
the pretense of taking care of them."
- Thomas Jefferson


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