Re: Creating a source tarball for repackaged source using dpkg-source -b
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 12:22:12PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 23:50 +0000, James Westby wrote:
> <snip>
> > 4. Run
> > tar czf <package>_<upstream-version>.dfsg.orig.tar.gz \
> > <package>-<upstream-version>.orig/
> >
> > (adjusting paths appropriately)
> >
> > I have never checked that tar czf actually produces gzip -9 files, so
> > you might need to form a pipeline if not.
> <snip>
>
> It doesn't. The pipeline would be:
> tar cf - $source_dir | gzip -c9 > $tarball
Or set GZIP=-9
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