[OS X TeX] How to save a complete TeX tree

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 05.01.2007 um 01:47 schrieb Maarten Sneep:

> tar will make all paths relative, meaning that the paths are stored  
> relative to usr/local/teTeX, rather than /usr etc. I would  
> recommend to first change to the directory /usr/local and then  
> issue the archive command:
>
> cd /usr/local/ ; tar --create --bzip2 --file=~/Desktop/Archived- 
> teTeX.tar.bz2 teTeX/
>
> Extracting is then a matter of going to /usr/local, and extracting  
> with, like this:
> cd /usr/local/ ; tar --extract --bzip2 --file=~/Desktop/Archived- 
> teTeX.tar.bz2


That's the proper procedure: first cd to the parent directory, then  
archive the child (directory)!


I checked last year the quality of the sym-links: it would work to  
restore teTeX somewhere else than in /usr/local/teTeX.


Using Mac OS X applications to save the tree of UNIX files might  
introduce errors. For Classic compatibility permissions could be  
"widened" – tar is the best! And its bzip2 compression is hard to beat.

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Greetings

   Pete

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