SYNOPSIS
pacoball [-bgftv] [-d DIR] [-1..9] [-a|<packages>]pacoball -e [-ltv] [-C DIR] <pacoballs>
DESCRIPTION
By default, pacoball may be given one or more
package names as arguments, and for each of those packages it creates
a binary tarball (.tar.bz2 or .tar.gz) containing all the currently
installed files. For this to work the input packages have to be
registered in the paco database.
Leading slashes ('/') are stripped from the paths of the files in the
tarballs.
With option -e, pacoball admits one or more previously created tarballs ("pacoballs") as arguments, and installs them into the system, optionally logging the installation with paco.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
GENERAL OPTIONS
- -t, --test
- Test compressed file integrity.
- -h, --help
- Show usage information and exit.
- -v, --verbose
- Verbose output.
- -V, --version
- Display version information and exit.
PACKAGE CREATION OPTIONS
- -a, --all
- Create a pacoball for each package logged in the paco database.
- -d, --directory=DIR
- Create the pacoballs in directory DIR (default is '.').
- -b, --bzip2
- Compress with bzip2 (this is the default).
- -g, --gzip
- Compress with gzip.
- -#
- Set the compression level (speed/quality balance). '#' is a number between 1 (faster compression) and 9 (best compression).
- --fast
- An alias for -1.
- --best
- An alias for -9.
- -f, --force
- Force overwrite of existing output files.
PACKAGE EXTRACTION OPTIONS
- -e, --extract
- Extract (install) the given <pacoballs>, in directory '/' by default.
- -l, --log
- Log the file extraction with paco(8), retrieving the appropiate package name from the name of the pacoball.
- -C, --root=DIR
- Extract the files into directory DIR (as the -C option in tar).
FILES
/etc/pacorc - paco configuration file
/var/log/paco - default paco log directory
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2004-2009 David Rosal <[email protected]>This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.