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diff --git a/system/heirloom-pax/README b/system/heirloom-pax/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..3d78d2bd91 --- /dev/null +++ b/system/heirloom-pax/README @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +Heirloom pax is a version of the POSIX standard archive tool. It is +from the The Heirloom Toolchest, which has code derived from original +UNIX material released as Open Source by Caldera and Sun. + +Unlike some other popular pax implementations this version can create +POSIX.1-2001 pax archives. It can also can read and write zip files, +RPM packages, various tar formats (including GNU tar), and the cpio +formats of Cray UNICOS, SGI IRIX (-K), SCO UnixWare (-c) and Tru64 +UNIX (-e). + +The Heirloom Toolchest utilities use a different path structure to +avoid replacing regular Linux utilities, which may have the same name +but function slightly differently. + +This SlackBuild installs pax to /usr/lib(64)/heirloom/bin, rather than +/usr/5bin (where the upstream maintainer suggests) to avoid littering +the top level of /usr. + +To use heirloom-pax, you have three choices, either call the +utilities directly by their full paths, manually place symlinks in +/usr/bin pointing to the appropropriate heirloom-pax version, or add +either /usr/lib(64)/heirloom/bin or /usr/lib(64)/heirloom/bin/posix2001 +to your PATH variable. The PATH variable is typically set system-wide +via /etc/profile. Refer to Slackware documentation for alternative +PATH setting options. + +Note: Another pax based on an old SUSE port of the Mir/OpenBSD +version is provided by SlackBuilds.org. However, despite the name +that version cannot actually produce POSIX.1-2001 pax archives, only +POSIX 1003.1 ustar archives. |