Salix OS

txz2lzm gives this error

ERROR: Invalid argument: unknown option (-root)

Thanks to the excellent "Salix Live Startup Guide" p 33 I easily founded the culprit:

This patch solves the bug

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--- /usr/bin/txz2lzm	2010-06-28 16:55:35.108422545 +0000
+++ /mnt/live/mnt/tmp/salixlive/tools/txz2lzm	2010-04-08 14:59:00.000000000 +0000
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 
 TMPDIR=/tmp/tgz2lzm$$
 
-installpkg --root $TMPDIR $1
+installpkg -root $TMPDIR $1
 if [ $? != 0 ]; then echo "error installing package"; exit; fi
 
 # optimalization procedures, this doesn't hurt

It's important for me to be able to easily add modules to salix live, and gslapt seams perfect, but one need to convert to lzm. With this patch, it is possible.

Ph.L.

Same error in /usr/bin/tgz2lzm

Ph.L

Thanks for catching this phly

Hi !
I had the same problem two days ago. But I patched it differently.

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-installpkg --root $TMPDIR $1
+export ROOT=$TMPDIR
+installpkg $1
+unset ROOT

This way, it is ok with both "installpkg" from slackware and the one we use : "spkg"

Salix OS

patch to make txz2lzm work (--root instead of bogus -root)

patch to make txz2lzm work (--root instead of bogus -root)

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