[Kde-extra-gear] Tarball creation software.

[Charles Connell]

On Thursday 27 December 2007 17:01, Tom Albers wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just checked[2] in a script which you all can use to create tarballs of
> your extragear applications. It is based on a ruby script of markey, which
> was based on cvs2dist once. Long history ;-)
>
> Anyway, make sure your application is listed in config.ini and run the
> create_tarball.rb script. It will ask you the version number (by default
> the version number of the latest kde-tag) and give the application you want
> a tarball (or multiple or 'all')
>
> It will fetch the source, documentation, po translations and desktop files
> and puts them in a tarball for you.
>
> As I use the script to provide tarballs each release of kde[1], I will make
> sure the script will be ok, but contribute to it please.
>
> Known bugs:
> - translations of the docbooks are not yet completed, will be when someone
> needs it
>
> Toma
> [1] http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Projects/extragearReleases
> [2] http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/playground/utils/createtarball/
Looks good.

One problem: you hardcoded your svn account into the script.
Also, your call to /bin/rm has argument issues.

- Charles