Other Help Topics :: Quick And Dirty .dsl Packages
ok i know that error. What you did was not specify what goes in the tar file. You did it in the right place but didn't tell tar what to add in. Did you put the wild card "*" after the name? It should look like this:
"tar cvfz xtet42.dsl *" << that is the astrisk (shift+8 after the dsl filename
or instead of the * you could put "./usr ./etc (rest of the folders names)"Your right. I forgot the *. I will try again. Thanks for the response!Well, I successfully created a mydsl file. It was a simple one but, hey, you gotta start somewhere!! I do have one glitch with the menu. When I boot up, EVERYTHING is in the MyDSL menu!! Any idea why? I created the /var/tmp/mydsl.menu directory. I looked at aceofpenguins and noticed that the tmp directory was not in /var so I moved it out to see if that would make a difference but I get the same result.
Thanks for the run through tecker. I'll have a play at the w/e.
Quote (clivesay @ June 24 2004,20:46)
I do have one glitch with the menu. When I boot up, EVERYTHING is in the MyDSL menu!!
What exactly is in there. All of the files?
OK let me clear this up. in the place you are going to pack from you should have one of the following for a menu:
/var/tmp/mydsl.menu/ -or- /tmp/mydsl.menu/
then you should have a file in there that will create the menu setting. For example:
/var/tmp/mydsl.menu/tecker
in that file tecker (your name will be different, and use the name of the package) should be the following syntax
Code Sample
[exec] (Tecker) {teckprg}
Let me break it down. The first part tell the menu item to execute a program. The second part '(Tecker)' is the name of the program that will appear in the menu. "myDSL -> Tecker" in this example. The third part '{teckprg}' is what to be executed. This could be just what you would type at the command prompt or the entire path '{/usr/bin/teckprg}'
As to why all of your files appear in the menu. Is there anything in there other then the menu file. If not i do not know what to tell you. Good Luck.
If you want it to be a sub menu take a look at the new section on that in the second post.Next Page...
original here.