.\" Copyright (c) 2004 Dimitar Toshkov Zhekov
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.TH BIZE 8 "15 Mar 2004"
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.SH NAME
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bize \- ROCK-Linux .tar.bz2 package manager
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.BI "bize -i [-t] [-v] [-f] [-R " root "] " package1.tar.bz2
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.BI ...
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.LP
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.BI "bize -r [-t] [-v] [-f] [-R " root "] " package1 ...
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.B bize
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is a shell script capable of installing, updating and removing
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ROCK-Linux .tar.bz2 package files. It implements a subset of
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.B mine
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options.
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.SS Requirements
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.BR md5sum ", " sort ", " rm ", " rmdir ", " mkdir ", " tar " and
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.BR bzip2 .
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All these are standard programs present in any Linux system, but
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.B bize
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checks for them on startup anyway.
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The presence of
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.B md5sum
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and of md5sum entries files is checked only if
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.B "\-f"
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is not specified.
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.SS Compatibility
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The .tar.bz2 and .gem formats are not compatible. Packages
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installed with
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.B bize
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can be removed with
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.B mine
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and vice-versa.
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.B bize
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has not been tested with ROCK-Linux 1.6 or earlier. Some of the
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ROCK-Linux 1.7.0+ targets produce .tar.bz2 packages only.
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.SS Effectiveness
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.B bize
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installs packages slightly faster than
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.BR "mine "
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and removes them several times slower. Much more time is required
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to install a package than to remove it, so
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.B bize
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is, overall, about 20% slower than
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.BR mine .
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The .tar.bz2 packages are a bit smaller than the .gem packages and
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are created a bit faster.
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.SH OPTIONS
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.TP
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.B "\-i"
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Install or update packages.
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.TP
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.B "\-r"
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Remove packages.
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.TP
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.B "\-t"
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Test mode. Show what will happen without doing it.
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.TP
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.B "\-v"
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Be verbose.
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.TP
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.B "\-f"
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Force removal/replacement of the modified files.
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.TP
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.BI "\-r " root
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Use
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.I root
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as root directory instead of /.
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.TP
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.B "\-\-"
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Terminate the option list.
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.SH BUGS
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Regular files with no md5sum entry are ignored in test mode and
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treated as modified in real mode unless
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.B "\-f"
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is specified. A normally built and installed ROCK-Linux package
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must include such an entry for each regular file.
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.SH SEE ALSO
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GEM-MINE
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