Re: [Paco-general] pacoball: don't archive content of catalogs

[David R. <dav...@gm...>]

Hi Sergei.

2007/9/7, Sergei Butakov <se...@bs...>:
>
> Hi,
>
> When command 'tar' have on input path to catalog, then it archive all
> content
> of that catalog. It's wrong.


With "catalog" you mean "directory"? In that case there's no problem since
paco does not log directories.

For example, if some program was installed to /usr/share/some_prog and have
> next pacolog:
> /usr/share
> /usr/share/some_prog
> then pacoball will do tar-archive for that program which have _all_
> content
> of /usr/share catalog. Also /usr/share/some_prog will be archived twice
> (first
> as member of catalog /usr/share and then as /usr/share/some_prog itself).
>
> So, it's better to use command 'cpio' which archive catalog itself without
> its
> content.
>
> P.S. I tested it with paco-1.10.12 only but I think it must work with
> paco-2.0.3 too.
>
> --
> Sergei Butakov
>