Re: ORBit 0.5.8?

[Chris Waters <xtifr debian org>]

On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 09:58:05PM +0500, Dan Winship wrote:

I apologize for overriding the reply-to, but the last time I posted
this patch, it got ignored, so I want to try to make sure this time.

> So, it seems like a good time for ORBit 0.5.8. Elliot said I should post
> a last call for 0.5.8 patches...

Basically, the tarballs are getting built with CVS directories in
them.  This is unnecessary, wasteful of disk space, and causes
problems with the Debian tools I use to maintain and build the
official Debian packages out of my own local CVS repositories.

The PROPER way to build tarballs, in my not-so-humble opinion, is to
use cvs export.  Doing that would solve the problem completely.
Unfortunately, whoever is in charge of the releases seems unwilling to
Do The Right Thing, so this patch works around the flaws in the
release process:

--- orbit-0.5.7.orig/Makefile.am
+++ orbit-0.5.7/Makefile.am
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 dist-hook: ORBit.spec
        mkdir $(distdir)/docs
        cp -pr $(srcdir)/docs/* $(distdir)/docs
+       rm -rf $(distdir)/docs/CVS $(distdir)/docs/idl/CVS
        cp ORBit.spec $(distdir)
 
 rpms: distcheck

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