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Old 01-30-2002, 12:23 PM   #1
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Question package quest


Has anyone ever come across a package for dhcp v3? I've already tried LinuxPackages.net to no avail.

I have a copy of the latest distribution from ISC, and will compile it if necessary, but if someone else has already done the work...
 
Old 01-30-2002, 03:17 PM   #2
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Yeah, I poked around all of the usual suspects too... linuxmafia.org was my first guess, but they seemed to have moved over to LinuxPackages.net, which shows you how far out of the loop I am.

Hey, be that guy, compile it from source and build the package for 'em.

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Old 01-30-2002, 03:17 PM   #3
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Yeah, I poked around all of the usual suspects too... linuxmafia.org was my first guess, but they seemed to have moved over to LinuxPackages.net, which shows you how far out of the loop I am.

Hey, be that guy, compile it from source and build the package for 'em.

Cheers,

Finegan
 
Old 02-02-2002, 10:29 AM   #4
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tar-nation!

I'd love to, but apparently I'm not smart enough to use tar successfully.

The source archive is a .tar.gz. A quick pass with gzip leaves me with a tarfile. Ok fine so far.

"tar -x dhcp-latest.tar" does nothing. No CPU activity, no output back to the console, nothing. The session will stay that way until I ^C out of it.

I must be missing something, but I'll be buggered if I know what.

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Old 02-02-2002, 02:56 PM   #5
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I always unpack source with the xzvf flags, but from the original .tar.gz file.

For instance:

tar xvzf bob-dhcpcd.tar.gz

x for extract, v verbose, z de-compress at the same time, and f forced. I'm pretty certain x should work for a straight tar archive... weird.

Cheers,

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Old 02-02-2002, 04:58 PM   #6
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I have just learnt a new command cpio , and it has more or less the same function as the tar command and cpio can backup special files and skip bad sectors when restoring data.


pls correct me if i am wrong

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Old 02-02-2002, 05:04 PM   #7
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Re: tar-nation!

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Originally posted by dguy

"tar -x dhcp-latest.tar" does nothing. No CPU activity, no output back to the console, nothing. The session will stay that way until I ^C out of it.

I must be missing something, but I'll be buggered if I know what.
you are missing the f in the command. It should read "tar -xf dhcp-latest.tar", or if you want to see what it is doing, "tar -xvf dhcp-latest.tar". If the file is compressed, you can also do "tar -xvzf dhcp-latest.tar.gz" or "tar -xvzf dhcp-latest.tgz" as needed.

-Rusty
 
Old 02-03-2002, 10:33 AM   #8
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Cool Thanks!

Finegan & Rusty,

It likely would have taken me a while to discover that the "f" flag was needed on tar's command line.

I wouldn't have thought that it was necessary to "force" tar to look at a local file, especially when (to me) it should have been obvious that it was in a local directory.

Anywho, it's working now. Thanks again!
 
  


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