This script uses an existing set of XFree86 distribution tarballs to

generate a packing list for each tarball.  We can later use these
packing lists to roll our own tarballs.

release/scripts/X11/generate_plists.sh

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+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# This script generates the list of files stored in a set of tarballs.  For
+# each argument, it uses tar to extract the list of contents and then outputs
+# the list to a file with the same base name and the extension "plist".
+
+# generate_plist <tar archive> <packing list>
+#
+# Takes the archive listed in the first argument and generates a corresponding
+# plist file to the name listed in the second argument.
+generate_plist() {
+	echo "Generating $2 from $1..."
+
+	tar_arguments='tf';
+
+	# handle gzip/bzip2/compress
+	case $1 in
+		*gz)
+			tar_arguments="${tar_arguments}z"
+			;;
+		*bz)
+			tar_arguments="${tar_arguments}y"
+			;;
+		*Z)
+			tar_arguments="${tar_arguments}Z"
+			;;
+	esac
+
+	tar ${tar_arguments} $1 > $2
+}
+
+# output the usage
+#
+usage() {
+	echo "$0 <tarball_dir> <plist_dir>"
+	echo
+	echo "Where <tarball_dir> is a directory containing all the X tarballs"
+	echo "in their proper directory structure and <plist_dir> is a"
+	echo "directory to put all the packing lists under."
+	exit 1
+}
+
+# copy the directory structure of the tarball directory over into the
+# packing list directory
+#
+mirror_directories() {
+	echo "Creating packing list directory structure..."
+	find ${tarball_dir} -type d | \
+		sed -e "s:^${tarball_dir}:mkdir -p ${plist_dir}:" | \
+		sh -x || exit 1
+}
+
+# build all the package lists
+#
+build_plists() {
+	for archive in `find ${tarball_dir} ! -type d`; do
+		plist=`echo ${archive} | \
+			sed -e "s/^${tarball_dir}/${plist_dir}/"`.plist
+		generate_plist ${archive} ${plist}
+	done
+}
+
+# check for enough arguments
+if [ $# -ne 2 ]; then
+	usage
+fi
+
+# setup the variables
+tarball_dir=$1
+plist_dir=$2
+
+# do all the work
+if mirror_directories; then
+	build_plists
+fi