🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 24 Mar 2000 13:52:54 +0000, phil hunt <philh@vision25.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> 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?

I do what you say above but I automate it. For example, here's a shell
script I use to built the source tarball of my Linux oriented Norton Guide
reader:

,----[ mktarfile ]
| #!/bin/sh
| 
| EGVER="`cat eg.h | grep EG_VERSION | sed -n 's/.*\"\([0-9.]*\)\".*/\1/gp'`"
| EGDIR="eg-$EGVER"
| 
| ./mkmanfile $EGDIR
| 
| rm -f eg-*.spec
| cat eg.spec | sed -e "s/\\\$VERSION\\$/$EGVER/g" > eg-$EGVER.spec
| 
| mkdir $EGDIR
| mkdir $EGDIR/default-guide
| 
| cp *.[ch]          $EGDIR
| cp Makefile        $EGDIR
| cp mktarfile       $EGDIR
| cp mklsmfile       $EGDIR
| cp mkmanfile       $EGDIR
| cp README          $EGDIR
| cp COPYING         $EGDIR
| cp Changes         $EGDIR
| cp TODO            $EGDIR
| cp BUGS            $EGDIR
| cp eg.spec         $EGDIR
| cp eg-$EGVER.spec  $EGDIR
| cp eg              $EGDIR
| cp eg.lsm          $EGDIR
| cp eg.1            $EGDIR
| cp eg.man.1        $EGDIR
| cp default-guide/* $EGDIR/default-guide
| 
| tar czvf $EGDIR.tar.gz $EGDIR
| 
| rm -Rf $EGDIR/*
| rmdir  $EGDIR
| 
| mkdir -p release
| mv $EGDIR.tar.gz release/
| 
| ./mklsmfile $EGDIR
`----

I have a "release" directory under the work directory and the tarball gets
dropped into there. mkmanfile and mklsmfile, as the names suggest, build the
man and lsm files.

The above is fired with "make tarfile":

,----[ Excerpt from Makefile ]
| tarfile: veryclean
|         ./mktarfile
`----

When anything becomes a "routine (& therefore boring) administrative task"
it's time to automate it.

-- 
Take a look in Hagbard's World: |   w3ng - The WWW Norton Guide reader.
http://www.hagbard.demon.co.uk/ |     eg - Norton Guide reader for Linux.
http://www.acemake.com/hagbard/ |    weg - Norton Guide reader for Windows.
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