Re: package creation

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Gustavo A. Baratto wrote:

> I thought this was a very well requested feature, but I after searching on
> the mailing list archives, I found out that it is not...
>
> Basically, what I looking for is a 'make package' rule, where all the files
> that would be installed, plus an install script could be tarred up together,
> so we can copy the tarball to many diferent servers, unpack it, run the
> script, and the files get installed without the need of copying over or nfs
> mounting the whole source code? Not a fancy full blown package like rpm.

Here is most of what you need:

.PHONY: package
RELEASE_TAR=$(PACKAGE_TARNAME)-release-$(PACKAGE_VERSION).tar.gz
RELEASE_DIR=$(PACKAGE_TARNAME)-release-$(PACKAGE_VERSION)
package: all
        $(RM) $(RELEASE_TAR)
        mkdir -p $(RELEASE_DIR)
        $(MAKE) install DESTDIR=`pwd`/$(RELEASE_DIR)
        (cd $(RELEASE_DIR) && tar -czf ../$(RELEASE_TAR) *) && \
        $(RM) -r $(RELEASE_DIR) && \
        echo Created binary release package \"$(RELEASE_TAR)\".

Bob
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