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NAME

       pacoball - Binary package support for paco(8).

SYNOPSIS

       pacoball [-bgftv] [-d DIR] [-1..9] [-a|<packages>]
       pacoball -e [-ltv] [-C DIR] <pacoballs>

DESCRIPTION

       By  default,  pacoball  may  be	given  one  or more package names as arguments, and for each of those packages it creates a binary tarball
       (.tar.bz2 or .tar.gz) containing all the currently installed files. For this to work the input packages have to be registered in  the  paco
       database.
       Leading slashes ('/') are stripped from the paths of the files in the tarballs.

       With  option  -e,  pacoball  admits  one or more previously created tarballs ("pacoballs") as arguments, and installs them into the system,
       optionally logging the installation with paco.

       Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

GENERAL OPTIONS

       -t, --test
	      Test compressed file integrity.

       -h, --help
	      Show usage information and exit.

       -v, --verbose
	      Verbose output.

       -V, --version
	      Display version information and exit.

PACKAGE CREATION OPTIONS

       -a, --all
	      Create a pacoball for each package logged in the paco database.

       -d, --directory=DIR
	      Create the pacoballs in directory DIR (default is '.').

       -b, --bzip2
	      Compress with bzip2 (this is the default).

       -g, --gzip
	      Compress with gzip.

       -#     Set the compression level (speed/quality balance). '#' is a number between 1 (faster compression) and 9 (best compression).

       --fast An alias for -1.

       --best An alias for -9.

       -f, --force
	      Force overwrite of existing output files.

PACKAGE EXTRACTION OPTIONS

       -e, --extract
	      Extract (install) the given <pacoballs>, in directory '/' by default.

       -l, --log
	      Log the file extraction with paco(8), retrieving the appropiate package name from the name of the pacoball.

       -C, --root=DIR
	      Extract the files into directory DIR (as the -C option in tar).

FILES

       /etc/pacorc - paco configuration file
       /var/log/paco - default paco log directory

WEB SITE

       The latest version of pacoball should be always available at:
	    http://paco.sourceforge.net

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2004-2009 David Rosal <davidrr@sourceforge.net>
       This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICU-
       LAR PURPOSE.

SEE ALSO

       paco(8), pacorc(5), superpaco(8), rpm2paco(8)

paco-2.0.9							   28 June 2010 						       PACOBALL(8)