[Freeciv-Dev] (PR#4131) 'make dist' for the daily snapshot

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

[jdorje - Thu May  8 14:45:23 2003]:

> [baumans@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - Mon May  5 19:59:23 2003]:
> 
> > Oh, okay. Here's a version that does that, extracts the tar.gz into a
> > temporary directory (I hope tar zxvf works, or you could change that)
> > changes the directory name (not sure if it needs to do anything
else) and
> > then tars and bzip2s it back to where it's supposed to be. Not very
> elegant.
> 
> Here is a third version - similar to the previous, but the directory (in
> addition to the tarball) is renamed from 'freeciv' to
> 'freeciv-cvs-$TODAY'.  It also does less work in the extracted freeciv
> CVS directory, which may be safer.
> 
> I haven't been able to test this, since it requires a pretty exact
> directory setup which I don't have.  Note that any errors could have
> significant results (an erronous rm -rf could be very bad).

I committed this patch to the admin_bin CVS module...

Paulz or Reinier - can you update the active script
(/home/freeciv/bin/mklatest) on the server from this?

jason