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philh@vision25.demon.co.uk (phil hunt) writes:

> How do people make tarballs?
> 
> This is not as stupid a question as it sounds. I know the 'tar'
> command, and I know that for example:
> 
>    tar czvf parrot-0.2.5.tgz parrot-0.2.5/
> 
> will create a file 'parrot-0.2.5.tgz' which when untarred will
> put its contents in a subdirectory called 'parrot-0.2.5'.
> 
> The way i do this is that first I create a directory parrot-0.2.5/
> which contains evereything I want to include from the parrot/ directory
> to go into the tarball. This is potentially error-prone, especially
> as it is a routine (& therefore boring) administrative task. Then I 
> execute the tar command above.
> 
> Is there an easier way?

For a software distribution, I add this to the Makefile, so the boring
administrative task gets automated.

DIST_FILES = foo bar baz qux
VERSION=1.2.3

foo-$(VERSION).tar.gz : $(DIST_FILES)
        mkdir foo-$(VERSION)
        cp $(DIST_FILES) foo-$(VERSION)
        tar cvvvzf $< foo-$(VERSION)

tar : foo-$(VERSION).tar.gz

and then I can just `make tar'.

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Nate Eldredge
neldredge@hmc.edu