On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Eric Wolzak wrote: > Hello all. > Allthough it probably isn't a tremendous memory saver, I couldn't > accept that busybox tar didn't function due to the problem with the > exclude files. Every bit - and byte - counts. =) > Tested with ash (from oxygen , linux 2.4.3 Busybox 0.50) > Look very carefully for changes in size at backing up !! > Smaller packets are mostly not more compressed but less > complete ; ) Look VERY carefully. Tar shouldn't have any real affect on the size of the compressed package; it just sort of glues files together. (I think. Someone correct me if I'm wrong please.) <Begin Snipping> > # start of the real changes: > # cat all include and exclude files except the one from > # PACKAGE to temp file EXCLUDE2 If we're doing all of them, we may want to rename that variable to something a little less likely to confuse. Unless we're trying for the Unmaintainable Code standard, and then these comments are much too accurate. =) > cat /var/lib/lrpkg/*.list /var/lib/lrpkg/*.links >$EXCLUDE2 I may very well be confused here about the purpose of what this does, but is there a reason we want to cat ALL of the list and links files for the image here? I would think that we'd want: cat /var/lib/lrpkg/$PACKAGE.list /var/lib/lrpkg/$PACKAGE.links >$EXCLUDE2 Please smack me if I'm wrong. I'm writing e-mail at 5am, which is only worse than 4am. =) > echo -n "Creating $PACKAGE.lrp Please wait: " > > ticker > > cd / > cd / Is there any reason there are two of these? I sort of figured that one would be enough, but I'm getting the feeling I'm missing something here. -- George Metz Commercial Routing Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] "We know what deterrence was with 'mutually assured destruction' during the Cold War. But what is deterrence in information warfare?" -- Brigadier General Douglas Richardson, USAF, Commander - Space Warfare Center _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
