Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Packaging.

[Miles Bader]

On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 03:37:31PM -0500, Jonathan Daugherty wrote:
> I would like to know if there are any known tools for automating the
> process of creating tarballs of revisions from arch repositories.  So
> do you folks know of anything like
> 
>   $ maketarball address@hidden/project--branch--version--revision

What do you want  it to do, besides just:

  tla get REV PROJ-VER
  tar czf PROJ-VER.tar.gz PROJ-VER
  rm -rf PROJ-VER

?

I think often stuff like this has various details that vary from project to
project, for instance, mapping from the arch version number to the `real'
version number, and generating various ancillary files for the release
(autoconf, etc).

Given that just doing it manually is actually pretty simple,
a standard script may not be all that useful.

What do people think?

-Miles
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