@ricci One should not make media look like a frisbee if data preservation is the end goal.
@ricci One should not make media look like a frisbee if data preservation is the end goal.
💡 TIL: you can rename the files being archived by using the --transform option.
In this example, I add a top level directory because I am archiving files from all over the place and I want them to extract nice and neat:
⚙️ tar --create --transform 's,^,container/,' --verbose --gzip --file archive.tar.gz ./file1 /etc/file2 /var/www/html/file3
Chromium source tarball availability
Someone asked how I am creating Chromium (also -ungoogled) packages these days? When you download my SlackBuild script and attempt to build the package yourself, the script will error out because it cannot download the sources.
For weeks now, the Google automation is broken with regards to creating Chromium source tarba
https://alien.slackbook.org/blog/chromium-source-tarball-availability/
#Slackware #Software #chromium #cicd #google #tarball #ungoogled
The tar command is famously hard to use.
To create a tarball, remember "Create A File":
tar -caf my_archive.tar.gz file1.txt file2.png
To extract a tarball, remember "eXtract A File":
tar -xaf my_archive.tar.gz
(This works great on Linux. On macOS and some other systems, the -a flag causes problems during extraction—use -xf instead.)