MANIFAKE(1) General Commands Manual MANIFAKE(1)NAME
manifake - creates a MANIFEST.new out of a MANIFEST file
SYNOPSIS
manifake
DESCRIPTION
Manifake is a real simpleminded program that takes a MANIFEST file, such as one produced by a shar program, and creates a MANIFEST.new file
ready to be used by all the dist programs. What it does is that all archive numbers are removed and the optional leading comments up to a
dashed-line are thrown away.
Manifake will typically be used when converting an existing package to use metaconfig or any other dist utility.
AUTHOR
Raphael Manfredi <ram@hptnos02.grenoble.hp.com>
FILES
MANIFEST Original manifest produced by some shar program
MANIFEST.new Faked manifest file, suitable for use by any dist programs.
SEE ALSO makedist(1), metaconfig(1), pat(1).
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MAKEDIST(1) General Commands Manual MAKEDIST(1)NAME
makedist - a distribution kit maker
SYNOPSIS
makedist [ -dhqvV ] [ -c dir ] [ -s size ] [-f manifest ]
DESCRIPTION
Makedist is a rather simpleminded shar program that knows how to pack files into multiple kits of approximately 50000 bytes each. The shar
scripts produced assume very little about the target machine; there is correspondingly little error checking done compared to other shar
programs. Alternatively, with the -c option, you can create a directory containing the whole source tree, and then pack it up using your
own shell archiver.
If you are using the copyright expansion feature (as determined by packinit), then you have to pack your distribution using this program to
ensure the copyright is correctly set.
In order to run makedist you have to do two things:
1) Create a .package file in the package's top-level directory by running packinit. This program will ask you about your package and
remember what you tell it so that all the dist programs can be smart.
2) Create a MANIFEST.new file in your top-level directory that lists all the files in your package. The filename should be the first
field on each line. After some whitespace you can add a comment describing your file (briefly).
After running makedist, you will have a set of kits in your top-level directory. If your package name is "foo", they will be named
foo.kit1, foo.kit2, etc. The file created PACKLIST file is automatically added to the distribution and tells which files come with which
kits. If you used the -c option, you will end-up with a single directory instead, containing the whole distribution, ready to be sent to
the end-user.
If a file is too large to be packed as-is in one archive, it will be automatically split in smaller parts. Only the first 11 characters of
the file will be kept though, and makedist will abort if two distinct files are to be split and have the same 11 first characters in their
names. The split files will automatically be reconstructed at the end of the archive extraction by runnning a script generated in PAC-
KNOTES.
You may then mail your kits via kitsend or post them with kitpost.
OPTIONS
The following options are handled by makedist:
-c dir Tell makedist that the distribution should be copied (mirrored) in the specified directory, instead of producing shell archives.
Compatible with the -q option.
-d Turn on debug mode. Probably not useful.
-f file Use file as manifest. By default, MANIFEST.new is used.
-h Print help message and exit.
-q Quick production of the kits: the checked-out version of the files is used, instead of using the RCS file to actually get the
latest checked-in version. This will save some considerable time, but you have to be sure the checked-out version is up-to-date
or you might end up with an inconsistent package.
-s size Set maximum kit size to size bytes.
-v Verbose mode: trace kit building process or tree mirroring.
-V Print version number and exit.
AUTHORS
Larry Wall <lwall@netlabs.com> (version 2.0)
Raphael Manfredi <ram@hptnos02.grenoble.hp.com>
FILES
Creates ./$package.kit* unless -c option is used.
PACKLIST and PACKNOTES are also temporarily created.
SEE ALSO kitsend(1), kitpost(1), metaconfig(1), patcol(1)
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