Re: Countdown for libgii 0.8 and libggi 2beta release

[Thayne Harbaugh]

On 10 Jul 2001 22:29:03 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Brian S. Julin writes:
>  > On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Christoph Egger wrote:
>  > > Now I have two source tarballs (libgii and libggi).
>  > > 
>  > > I have called them as libgii_0.8.src.tar.bz2 and
>  > > libggi_2.0b4.src.tar.bz2.
>  > > 
>  > > Is the filename ok or is it somehow confusing?
>  > > 
>  > > I start creating two binary tarballs for Linux/i386.
>  > > 
>  > > Brian: Would you like to create binary tarballs for Linux/Alpha?
>  > 
>  > How do you want binary tarballs -- should I just build in a separate
>  > directory and give them essentially a tree full of .libs directories
>  > and makefiles?  Binary tarballs make me nervous, but I guess I'm the
>  > one with the Alpha.
> 
> I suggest install everything in /usr/local as usual then
> make a tarball with everything that got installed from /

My favorite is to create an RPM and then convert it to a tar.  You can
then kill two birds with one stone: RPM and tar binary at the same time
and they will be identical.
 
> something like:
> 
> cd /usr/local; find . -cmin -10 > /tmp/files;
> prepend /usr/local to every filename, strip the directories out then 
> cd /
> tar cvfz pack.tgz -T /tmp/files         
> 
> Eric.

-- 
Thayne Harbaugh