Re: [ECOS]using the administrative tools of configtool

[Sergei Gavrikov <sergei dot gavrikov at gmail dot com>]

On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 11:48:37AM +0300, Sergei Gavrikov wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 10:35:35AM +0200, Bob Brusa wrote:
> > Hi
> > I migrated from linux to windows (yea - such things happen :-) ) and now 
> > I have a problem with the administrative tools of configtool. Adding new  
> > packages under linux was done by packing them - together with a suitable  
> > pkgadd.db-file into a epk archive. The latter I generated using the gnome 
> > archiver and then changed the .tar.gz ending to .epk.
> >
> > Now under windows, I tried the same approach using the PowerArchiver.  
> > Nobis! Configtool can not read this file. How does one have to generate a 
> > *.epk under windows?
> >    Robert
> Hi,
> 
> And what's about Cygwin's tar/gzip? Well, if you prefer native windows
> tools (!cygwin) look at free 7z archiver (http://www.7-zip.org/). The
> 7z supports packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR.

Google is still your friend ;-)
http://www.tmsnetwork.org/blog/creating-targz-archive-easily-windows

Robert, be sure that a created tar.gz bundle has not absolute pathes,
and only, e.g. devs, hal, pkgadd.db, etc.

HTH

Sergei

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