Hello,

I would like to tar and compress my ports dir without the following 2 directories:

a) distfiles

b) packages
Here is a gtar command I used that works well:

cd /usr && gtar -czpf ~/test.tar.gz --exclude=packages --exclude=distfiles ports
Actually I would like to do the same with the default openbsd tools ... but I can't :-((
I tried different commands ... but without success .... it does not work.

Using "find ... | xargs tar ..." does not work as expected, as it looks like xargs invokes the tar command multiple times.

As a result, the ports.tar.gz file is overwritten and incomplete.
I tried a lot of combinations like:

cd /usr

find ports/ ! \( -type d -name packages -maxdepth 1 \) -and !  \( -type d -name distfiles -maxdepth 1 \) -print \

| xargs tar -czpf ~/ports.tar.gz;

This does not work .... the ports.tar.gz file is overwritten multiple times and at the end it is incomplete.

I also tried pax or tried to redirect the find command in a file ( find .. > files.txt), and use "cat files | xargs tar ..." same result :-(
How can achive my goal with the standard openbsd files (without installing gtar!)?
Thank you very much

didier