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> > I'm OK to stick with gtar.
>
> Update - the tar in my CentOS 5.10 (and I presume RHEL 5) system is gnu tar,
> but too old to have the --transform option.
>
Ugh.
> I've picked the SRPM from Fedora 10 (!), remade the rpm and installed. This
> has the --transform option and Makepkgs worked.
>
> If you go later than Fedora 10 you run into autoconf version
> incompatibilities (certainly by Fedora 16 this prevents the source rpm
> rebuild). Earlier then Fedora 10 and the version of gnu tar is too old.
>
> Bit of a battle, but done now.
Another option I've looked into - if we (optionally?) relax the requirement
that modifications to files are included in the tarball, life becomes a bit
simpler once more (I spent a fair bit of time trying to coerce git-stash to
help us here, but without any luck).
So, if we do that, we can use the built-in git-archive tarball generation;
git archive --format=tar --prefix=pcp-xyz/ HEAD | gzip > pcp-xyz.src.tar.gz
(and then we need to make sure gzip exists!)
Any interest in adding this mode as a fallback, when no gnu tar is found?
(perhaps using "git-status --porcelain" to warn about any modifications?)
cheers.
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Nathan
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