Where is ar

[roger@languageONE.com.au]

Sorry if this has been asked before but searching on "ar" gets a whole heap of, well, just about everything

I am looking for ar (manage archives) and it is usually in binutils but cannot find it in PureCore
Is it part of any tcz ??

Thanks

[Rich]

Hi roger@languageONE.com.au
I think  eu-ar  in  elfutils.tcz  might do what you want.

[Rich]

Hi roger@languageONE.com.au
Another possibility might be  gcc-ar  in  gcc.tcz.

[curaga]

The busybox ar is included in the base?

[Juanito]

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$ tce-load -i binutils
binutils.tcz: OK
$ which ar
/usr/local/bin/ar

Note that binutils ar cannot be a symlink so the startup scripts unpacks /usr/local/share/binutils/files/files.tar.gz, which contains ar, into the root file system.

[Juanito]

adjusted binutils dep file, since ar requires flex

adjusted binutils list file, since ar, nm and ranlib are contained in files.tar.gz

[andyj]

I thought we fixed this already? http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,21086.0.html But I noticed that I don't have a dependency file for binutils. I run tce-update and binutils isn't updated so I don't get an updated dependency file. Shouldn't tce-update check for updated dependency files even if the tcz isn't changed? It seems not.

[Misalf]

Apps -> Maintenance -> Dependencies and Deletions -> Update .dep files.

[Misalf]

Or

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tce-audit updatedeps


[andyj]

Is there one right way to update everything (short of rsync), or is this a multi-step process by design?

[curaga]

It's a separate step in case you made custom edits to .dep files, etc.

[andyj]

In that case, is there a way to blacklist certain extensions from being updated?

[roger@languageONE.com.au]

Found that. Thank you guys. However

When I run ar I receive the message "Cannot open shared libraries..libfl.so.2"
Any clues ?

[Misalf]

@andyj
You could remove the  .md5.txt  file of an extensions you don't want to get updated, but that makes subsequent extensions fail to download if the extension you want to protect is a dependency of one that is to be downloaded. Because the  .tcz  is already there but cannot be verified to be OK.

I use to have a directory  /tce/optional/custom , containing my personal and costomized extensions, symlinked one directory up. If one gets "updated", I can fix it by re-symlinking it.

A real blacklist feature would be handy though.

@roger@languageONE.com.au
You need  flex.tcz . You dont have the new  .dep  file yet.
Run

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tce-audit updatedeps
tce-audit fetchmissing


[andyj]

This does an update in place, so good thing I saved my .dep edits before I started. This begs the question, why is there more than one way to update our extensions and why don't they behave consistently (one in place, one to an "upgrade" directory)?