This directory contains bits to allow tarsnap to fit into operating system package management systems. I don't have access to all of these systems, so please email me (at [email protected]) if there are any problems with these bits or if you can provide packaging bits for another OS.
To build a Debian package:
ln -s pkg/debian .
dpkg-buildpackage -b
Then to install it:
sudo dpkg -i ../tarsnap_<version>_<arch>.deb
The DEBIAN.md file discusses a more advanced packaging system with a view towards reproducibility and cryptographically signed packages.
There is a PKGBUILD file for an earlier version of tarsnap in pkg/archlinux. I can't include a PKGBUILD for the current version of tarsnap because the PKGBUILD file contains the hash of the tarball which contains the PKGBUILD file. If you're running Arch Linux, you should know what to do with the PKGBUILD file; but you may wish to change the pkgver=, md5sums=, and sha256sums= lines so that you get the latest version of tarsnap.
There may be a newer version of the PKGBUILD file at
http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/i686/tarsnap/ http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/tarsnap/
(in fact, those probably have identical PKGBUILD files).
To build a Fedora package:
sudo dnf install rpmdevtools
sudo dnf builddep pkg/fedora/tarsnap.spec
rpmdev-setuptree
spectool -g pkg/fedora/tarsnap.spec -C ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES
rpmbuild -bb pkg/fedora/tarsnap.spec
Then to install it:
sudo dnf install ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/<arch>/tarsnap-<version>-*.rpm
Note: this spec file has been tested on Fedora; there may be some incompatibilities with CentOS, OpenSUSE, or other spec-file-based Linux distributions.
There is a SlackBuild for tarsnap (possibly an earlier version) at
for VER = 12.2 and 13.1 (and possibly other versions by the time you read this).
Tarsnap is in the FreeBSD ports tree, the OpenBSD ports tree, and the pkgsrc tree as sysutils/tarsnap.