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The gnutar Portfile 57936 2009-09-19 07:16:51Z mww macports.org $

PortSystem 1.0

Name: gnutar
Version: 1.22
Revision: 1
Category: archivers
Maintainers: mww
license GPLv3
Description: tar version of the GNU project
Long Description: the gnutar program creates, adds files to, or extracts files from an archive file in gnutar format, called a tarfile. A tarfile is often a magnetic tape, but can be a floppy diskette or any regular disk file.

Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/
Master Sites: gnu:tar
Checksums: md5 07fa517027f426bb80f5f5ff91b63585 sha1 ca99a6ade7308f9293bdb04048cb335e52c63215 rmd160 62436792e47586f00a9aa8f5eaac87b9ce61d503
distname tar-${version}
use_bzip2 yes
Platform: darwin

depends_lib port:gettext port:libiconv

configure.args --program-prefix=gnu --infodir=${prefix}/share/info

test.run yes
test.target check

post-destroot {
xinstall -v -m 755 -d ${destroot}${prefix}/share/doc/${name}
xinstall -v -W ${worksrcpath} ABOUT-NLS AUTHORS COPYING ChangeLog ChangeLog.1 INSTALL NEWS PORTS README THANKS TODO ${destroot}${prefix}/share/doc/${name}
file rename ${destroot}${prefix}/share/info/tar.info ${destroot}${prefix}/share/info/gnutar.info
file rename ${destroot}${prefix}/share/info/tar.info-1 ${destroot}${prefix}/share/info/gnutar.info-1
file rename ${destroot}${prefix}/share/info/tar.info-2 ${destroot}${prefix}/share/info/gnutar.info-2

xinstall -m 755 -d ${destroot}/${prefix}/libexec/gnubin
ln -sf ${prefix}/bin/gnutar ${destroot}${prefix}/libexec/gnubin/tar
}

livecheck.type regex
livecheck.url http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/?C=M&O=D
livecheck.regex tar-(\[0-9\.\]+\[0-9\])\\.

If you haven't already installed Darwin Ports, you can find easy instructions for doing so at the main Darwin Ports page.
Once Darwin Ports has been installed, in a terminal window and while online, type the following and hit return:

%  cd /opt/local/bin/portslocation/dports/gnutar
%  sudo port install gnutar  
Password: 

You will then be prompted for your root password, which you should enter. You may have to wait for a few minutes while the software is retrieved from the network and installed for you. Y ou should see something that looks similar to:

--->  Fetching gnutar
--->  Verifying checksum for gnutar
--->  Extracting gnutar
--->  Configuring gnutar
--->  Building gnutar with target all

--->  Staging gnutar into destroot

--->  Installing gnutar

- Make sure that you do not close the terminal window while Darwin Ports is working. Once the software has been installed, you can find further information about using gnutar with these commands:

%  man gnutar
%  apropos gnutar
%  which gnutar
%  locate gnutar

 Where to find more information: