chef-base-plans / tar

Habitat Package for tar

tar

GNU Tar provides the ability to create tar archives, as well as various other kinds of manipulation.

Maintainers

• The Core Planners: [e-mail]

Type of Package

Binary package

Use as Dependency

Binary packages can be set as runtime or build time dependencies. See Defining your dependencies for more information.

To add core/tar as a depdendency, you can add one of the following to your plan file.

Buildtime Dependency

pkg_build_deps=(core/tar)

Runtime Depdendency

pkg_deps=(core/tar)

Use as Tool

Installation

To install this plan, you should run the following commands to first install, and then link the binaries this plan creates.

hab pkg install core/tar

» Installing core/tar

☁ Determining latest version of core/tar in the 'stable' channel

☛ Verifying core/tar/1.32/20200305233447

...

✓ Installed core/tar/1.32/20200305233447

★ Install of core/tar/1.32/20200305233447 complete with 1 new packages installed.

hab pkg binlink core/tar

» Binlinking tar from core/tar into /bin

★ Binlinked tar from core/tar/1.32/20200305233447 to /bin/tar

Using an example binary

You can now use the binary as normal:

/bin/tar --help or tar --help

Usage: tar [OPTION...] [FILE]...
GNU 'tar' saves many files together into a single tape or disk archive, and can
restore individual files from the archive.

Examples:
  tar -cf archive.tar foo bar  # Create archive.tar from files foo and bar.
  tar -tvf archive.tar         # List all files in archive.tar verbosely.
  tar -xf archive.tar          # Extract all files from archive.tar.
...

Notes

Known issues

• Running DO_CHECK may show one test (listed04.at) failing on some computers - particularly on OSX laptops. Ref: habitat-sh/core-plans#1636