On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 01:17:08PM -0500, Victor Duchovni wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 10:02:33AM -0800, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
>
> >> You have not read "PACKAGE_README".
> >
> > This is really the answer. I missed this document, things should work fine
> > with it.
>
> One minor nit in the document, it uses "xargs" to collect a file list for
> "tar", but the file list may be too long for one command invocation:
>
> % cd INSTALL_ROOT
> % rm -f SOMEWHERE/outputfile
> % find . \! -type d -print | xargs tar cf SOMEWHERE/outputfile
> % gzip SOMEWHERE/outputfile
>
> With "tar c", only the last batch of files are in the tar archive. The
> command should be "tar rf" not "tar cf".
Of course you can build packages more sophisticatd than "tar", and in that
case you can use the "postfix-files" file to determine which files in
the install_root to include in the package, and what metadata to assign
to those files (including which files need to preserve user-modified
copies, ...). The "tar" variant is just an example, in practice, on
most platforms, you do something more sophisiticated.
--
Viktor.
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