This script takes the packing lists we generated earlier and generates the

corresponding tarball from it.  It uses the packing list name to determine
the tarball name.  If the tarball name ends in 'gz', it will be gzipped, if
it ends in 'bz', it will be bzip2'd.

release/scripts/X11/generate_tarballs.sh

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+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# This script takes a directory containing the base install of X, a directory
+# containing the packing lists for the tarballs, and generates the distribution
+# tarballs in a 3rd destination directory.
+
+# generate_tarball <packing list> <tarball>
+#
+# Takes the packing list listed in the first argument and generates a
+# corresponding tarball relative to the source directory in a file with the
+# name listed in the second argument.
+generate_tarball() {
+	echo "Generating $2 from $1..."
+
+	tar_arguments='cnTfp';
+
+	# handle gzip/bzip2/compress
+	case $2 in
+		*gz)
+			tar_arguments="${tar_arguments}z"
+			;;
+		*bz)
+			tar_arguments="${tar_arguments}y"
+			;;
+		*Z)
+			tar_arguments="${tar_arguments}Z"
+			;;
+	esac
+
+	cat $1 | (cd  ${source_dir} ; tar ${tar_arguments} - - ) > $2
+}
+
+# output the usage
+#
+usage() {
+	echo "$0 <source_dir> <plist_dir> <tarball_dir>"
+	echo
+	echo "Where <source_dir> is a directory containing the X distribution,"
+	echo "<plist_dir> is the directory containing all of the packing lists"
+	echo "generated by generate_plists.sh, and <tarball_dir> is the"
+	echo "directory to put all the tarballs under."
+	exit 1
+}
+
+# copy the directory structure of the packing list directory over into the
+# tarball directory
+#
+mirror_directories() {
+	echo "Creating tarball directory structure..."
+	find ${plist_dir} -type d | \
+		sed -e "s:^${plist_dir}:mkdir -p ${tarball_dir}:" | \
+		sh -x || exit 1
+}
+
+# build all the tarballs
+#
+build_tarballs() {
+	for plist in `find ${plist_dir} ! -type d`; do
+		archive=`echo ${plist} | \
+			sed -e "s:^${plist_dir}:${tarball_dir}:" \
+			    -e 's/\.plist$//'`
+		generate_tarball ${plist} ${archive}
+	done
+}
+
+# check for enough arguments
+if [ $# -ne 3 ]; then
+	usage
+fi
+
+# setup the variables
+source_dir=$1
+plist_dir=$2
+tarball_dir=$3
+
+# do all the work
+if mirror_directories; then
+	build_tarballs
+fi