ports database

[Peter Boosten]

On 29-8-2010 0:59, perryh at pluto.rain.com wrote:
> Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:
> 
>>>     tar -cf ports.tar /usr/port
>>
>> It should be, better suited:
>>
>> 	# cd /usr
>> 	# tar cf ports.tar ports
>>
>> So one could do "tar xf ports.tar" in the target machine's /usr
>> ...
> 
> Better put the created tarfile somewhere other than in the directory
> that is being tarred :)

That's the case in the above example...

> and it might as well be compressed, something like:
> 
> # cd /usr
> # tar cf - ports | gzip > /var/tmp/ports.tgz

how about: tar zcf ports.tar.gz ports

;-)

Peter

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