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

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul Zastoupil wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 07:04:32PM -0700, Jason Short wrote:
> 
>>[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
> 
> freeciv@freeciv [~/bin] cvs diff mklatest
> freeciv@freeciv [~/bin] ls -l mklatest
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 freeciv  freeciv     8646 Jan 20  2003 mklatest
> 
> Um....

I don't understand.  Do you just need to do a "cvs up mklatest"?

jason