Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] Tux Paint 0.9.15 release plans

[Ben A. <sy...@sa...>]

On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 20:31 -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> 
>         PS to Ben - remind me, what's the trick to make a tarball and
>         NOT include
>         the CVS and .cvsignore files? ;)
> 
> For procps, I use variables to explicitly list the files. I build the
> tarball before doing my final testing, so I can test what I hope
> to release as the final tarball. Makefile code:

Alternatively, you could use an exclusive approach rather than inclusive
using find and -prune.  Something like:

find . \( -wholename '*/CVS' -o -name .cvsignore \) -prune -o -print

Assuming 'make clean' has run before this, and your clean target is
comprehensive, this will produce a list of only non-junk files to
include in the tarball.

Of course, this doesn't protect against accidentally including
"my_shopping_list.txt" in the tarball.  But then again, it doesn't
require you keep TARFILES up-to-date.  Choose whichever method you think
is less likely to cause you grief maintaining.

Ben