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On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Alan Burlison wrote: > Wot, you mean like this? > > -------------------- > $ mktarpkg > This will build tar archives for Perl and any selected modules. > You can opt either to just build individual tar archives for Perl and > selected modules, or you can choose to build a combined archive that > also includes an install shell script. The shell script will allow > selection of the modules to be installed. > Do you wish to build a combined Perl + module archive? [y] n > Finding all installed modules... > Do you want to package the Perl core? [y] n [snip] > All the information needed to do this is there already in the form of > the .packlist files, along with the ExtUtils::Packlist and > ExtUtils::Installed modules. The only thing missing is module > dependency information. I've offered this up for consideration several > times but it has been met with waves of indifference. Yes that is the functionality that I desire. It appears to use Archive::Tar(?) I suppose there will be some who prefer the flexibility of "native" archive/compress but tar is widely implemented (IIRC Chris Nandor's Mac port of CPAN uses Archive::Tar to unpackage tar balls on Mac OS). I'll make a note to check out the package on a few different platforms. Thanks for the pointer. Peter PrymmerThread Previous | Thread Next