Re: [HACKERS] Removing derived files from CVS

Script looks good...regenerating a new snapshot right now ...

On Sat, 20 Mar 1999, Tom Lane wrote:

> I have installed a script (src/tools/release_prep) that generates the
> parser and ecpg/preproc derived files on-the-fly, and removed said files
> from CVS.
>
> (I didn't do anything about src/configure --- how do people feel about
> that? I'd want to see hub's autoconf updated to 2.13 anyway, if it is
> going to start generating configure locally.)
>
> In order to generate snapshot tarballs that contain these derived files,
> you need to replace ~pgsql/bin/mk-snapshot at hub.org with the attached
> script. (You can find a copy in ~tgl/bin/mk-snapshot at hub, if you'd
> rather copy that file than cut-n-paste.) It doesn't look like I have
> write permission on that file, so it's up to you.
>
> You'll need to make a comparable mod in whatever script you use for
> preparing releases, too, but I didn't find that one in looking around.
>
> BTW: in testing this script, I produced a tarball of 5894631 bytes,
> whereas last night's snapshot is 5974070 bytes. It would appear that
> there's 80k (compressed) worth of cruft in the ~pgsql/pgsql tree that
> CVSup is not cleaning out. Indeed the *,v files in that toplevel
> directory are not there in a fresh checkout. I'd suggest rm -rf'ing
> the whole tree and making CVSup do a fresh checkout.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
>
> #!/bin/sh
> PATH=/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
> cd /home/projects/pgsql
> # check out tree
> /usr/local/bin/cvsup -L 1 -g -Z README.cvsup
> # perform prerelease cleanup
> cd pgsql
> src/tools/release_prep
> cd ..
> # make the snapshot tarfile
> tar czpf tmp/postgresql.snapshot.tar.gz pgsql
> rm -f ftp/pub/postgresql.snapshot.tar.gz
> mv -f tmp/postgresql.snapshot.tar.gz ftp/pub/postgresql.snapshot.tar.gz
>

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