[RFC] tar --to-command

walter harms wharms at bfs.de
Sat Jun 19 09:36:20 UTC 2010


I did not try but maybe this is helpful for you:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shar


(in the article below is a hint)
http://www.heise.de/ix/artikel/Paketbote-506656.html

re,
 wh



Ladislav Michl schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> I needed a convenient way of upgrading device firmware where available RAM is
> smaller than image size. Firmware file contains kernel, rootfs image and a
> few fpga images. Easiest way seems to pack everything into tar file and write
> to appropriate places based on filename (idea comes from Marc Kleine-Budde @
> pengutronix). Here is an (simplyfied) example:
> 


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