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makeself-2.7.1

script generating a self-extractible .tgz from a directory

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Description

makeself is a shell script that generates a self-extractable tar.gz archive from a directory. The resulting file appears as a shell script, and can be launched as is. The archive will then uncompress itself to a temporary directory and an arbitrary command will be executed (for example an installation script). This is pretty similar to archives generated with WinZip Self-Extractor in the Windows world.

Package information

Ports path
archivers/makeself
Package architecture
*
Maintainer
The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <ports@openbsd.org>
Categories
archivers, misc
Available flavors
None listed

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Direct dependencies

None listed in sqlports.

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