Re: How to deal with CVS directories in upstream tarballs?

[Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 01:19:37PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 01:37:07PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 07:12:54PM +0100, Alexis Sukrieh wrote:
> > >     - Should I make my own .orig.tar.gz tarball whenever a new upstream
> > >       release is packaged? I'm planning to do that for 2.18.
> > This sounds like a good idea.  Use a makefile rule "cleancvs" (nothing
> > has to depend on it, you'll just run it manually, I guess).
> > 
> >   find ./ -name CVS -type d -exec rm -fr {} \;
> >   find ./ -name .cvsignore -exec rm -f {} \;
> 
> Having a pristine tarball if possible is IMHO preferred above saving it
> from a bit of space in your tarball.
I agree with this, in fact.  Probably best to use change it to
'find ./debian/'.

Justin