Re: Read-write tarfs

[Niels Möller]

"Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@kemisten.nu> writes:

>      $ settrans -ca chbouib /hurd/tarfs -j --volatile chbouib-0.1.tar.bz2
>      $ cd chbouib
>      $ ./configure && make && cd .. && settrans -g tmp
> 
> I would rather use unionfs (hi moritz!) and make the tar ball
> read-only, but thats only me.

Or use a separate build directory, if the package supports that.
Putting the objectfiles into the tarfile seems cool but pretty
useless. ;-)

A perhaps more useful example of read-write usage might be to apply a
patch to a tarfile without unpacking it.

/Niels