[Qgis-developer] Re: Call for packaging: QGIS 1.7.0 'Wroclaw'

[Charlie Sharpsteen]

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 12:49 AM, Tim Sutton <lists at linfiniti.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 9:42 PM, David Spencer
> <baildon.research at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >> Source tarballs can be obtained from here:
> >> http://qgis.org/downloads/qgis-1.7.0.tar.gz
> >
> > The top level directory in the tarball is qgis-Quantum-GIS-dfd6ece/,
> > not qgis-1.7.0/.  Is that intentional?
> >
>
> Thats the way gitbub generates the tarball. The hash at the end is the
> exact revision for the release tag. Does it cause a problem for you
> packaging wise? I guess its not so user friendly, so I could unpack it
> rename it and repack it if you think it will be better.
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>

No need to repack, just use git-archive to export a snapshot:

    # Sync with QGIS repo and pull down tags
    git fetch qgis-upstream
    git archive --format=tar --prefix=qgis-1.7.0/ final-1_7_0 | gzip >
qgis-1.7.0.tar.gz

-Charlie
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