Re: tar.gz (fwd)
Tom suggests this
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Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 09:52:30 +0100
From: Tom Lees <tom@lpsg.demon.co.uk>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
Subject: Re: tar.gz
On Wed, May 20, 1998 at 08:33:44PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Wed, 20 May 1998, Scott K. Ellis wrote:
>
> > > Again, I'd rather not have the things in CVS you put in, and I really
> > > don't want all the Makefile.in's in CVS, I'd hope the packaging system is
> > > flexable enough to let us do this :|
> >
> > I've been forgetting what I created the super-l33ch target for :/
> >
> > I'll try to remember to run "debian/rules super-l33ch" before building
> > from now on :)
>
> This doesn't deal with the symlink problem which is the other important
> issue. A tar full of symlinks is still useless :<
>
> Anyhow, once we can produce a tar.gz that has all the files in it I would
> like to confirm that it builds properly on the other archs and release
> into slink - I have stopped writing any new code for it and no big bugs
> came today :>
Try "make dist" to create apt-0.0.12.tar.gz, eg, then
"mv apt-*.tar.gz ../apt_0.0.12.orig.tar.gz". This will fix the symlink problem.
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