On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 12:49 AM, Tim Sutton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lists@linfiniti.com" target="_blank">lists@linfiniti.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi<br>
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On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 9:42 PM, David Spencer<br>
<<a href="mailto:baildon.research@googlemail.com" target="_blank">baildon.research@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> Source tarballs can be obtained from here:<br>
>> <a href="http://qgis.org/downloads/qgis-1.7.0.tar.gz" target="_blank">http://qgis.org/downloads/qgis-1.7.0.tar.gz</a><br>
><br>
> The top level directory in the tarball is qgis-Quantum-GIS-dfd6ece/,<br>
> not qgis-1.7.0/. Is that intentional?<br>
><br>
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Thats the way gitbub generates the tarball. The hash at the end is the<br>
exact revision for the release tag. Does it cause a problem for you<br>
packaging wise? I guess its not so user friendly, so I could unpack it<br>
rename it and repack it if you think it will be better.<br>
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Regards<br>
<br>
Tim<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>No need to repack, just use git-archive to export a snapshot:</div><div><br></div><div> # Sync with QGIS repo and pull down tags</div><div> git fetch qgis-upstream</div><div>
git archive --format=tar --prefix=qgis-1.7.0/ final-1_7_0 | gzip > qgis-1.7.0.tar.gz</div><div><br></div><div>-Charlie</div></div>