Re: [bu-users] Um... Pax?

[Vincent S. <bu...@hi...>]

On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 09:30:15PM +0100, Stefan Morrell wrote:
> On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 02:00:20PM -0500, Vincent Stemen wrote:
> > Oh yea, I remember you saying that before.  Just out of curiosity, do
> > you distribute it publicly?  If so what is the name of it?  If you make
> > pax available with it, perhaps I could mention it in the docs and put
> > a link to it.
> 
> It's essentially LFS, but ahm... my way :)

Ah.  I see.

 
> > If you don't come up with any other viable options and want the newer
> > one, the easiest approach would probably be to extract it from one of
> > the rpm source packages, make sure it compiles and works, and re-package
> > the source as a standard tar.gz file.  If you do that, I would be
> > interested in getting a copy from you to put on our site, or linking to
> > it on your site.
> 
> The best option currently seems to be the source package I gave the link to 
> before. As you say, most mainstream distro's have it already. It's just the
> awkward people like me who need to go the extra mile and I guess that's the
> price we pay :)

Looks like you are right.  Ok, I downloaded the Linux pax-3.4 from the
SUSE site link you provided.  Just out of curiosity, I tried compiling
it on NetBSD.  Configure completed without errors but it failed to
compile from various errors including at least one missing header.  No
big surprise there :-).  

Anyway I tried it on our Debian Linux VPS hosting site and it compiled
clean.  So I have made it available in the bu download directory.
I also added a pax note file in there explaining what pax is and making
it more obvious that it is required, so that you will see it when you go
to download bu.