On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:58:12 +0200 Florian Haas <florian.haas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2009-10-06 13:54, FUJITA Tomonori wrote: > > I'm not sure if `make tarball` is useful. I don't use it so it's not > > my problem but I don't want to support something that doesn't work > > well. > > > > For example, `make tarball` creates useless tarball for me: > > > > fujita@viola:~/git/tgt$ tar tjf tgt-0.9.9.tar.bz2 |head > > tgt-0.9.9/GPATH > > tgt-0.9.9/GRTAGS > > tgt-0.9.9/GSYMS > > tgt-0.9.9/GTAGS > > tgt-0.9.9/Makefile > > tgt-0.9.9/README > > tgt-0.9.9/conf/ > > tgt-0.9.9/conf/targets.conf > > Well it turns out that the patch actually fixes that too. It will only > roll Makefile, README, conf/, doc/, scripts/ and usr/ into the tarball. > > > Everyone has other files for other reasons. I don't think that `make > > tarball` is a good idea. > > See above. The patch creates another problem; if you add a new file, you need to change Makefile. Why do I need to do that even if 'make tarball' is useless for me? > > You complained that git-archive handles only files in a git tree but > > it should not be a problem. You have your own git tree so git-archive > > should create a nice tarball for you. > > But it doesn't work for rolling a tarball that I can then build with > rpmbuild -tb, which was the whole point. As a debian packaging tool has, you need to have 'creating a tarball' feature in your packaging tool. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stgt" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
