From: Dan Tenenbaum <dandante@...>
Date: 2006-09-02T07:20:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Using rake package task- suppressing initial segment of

Jim Weirich wrote:
> Dan Tenenbaum wrote:
> [...]
>> I need for the initial "wcv" **not** to be included.
>> In other words, when I run "tar ztf pkg/wcv.tar.gz" I want to see:
>> README
> 
> Yikes!  I hate when packages dump their contained files intermingled 
> with files in the current directory.  That's why PackageTask does it 
> that way it does.

Yeah...but I'm not creating a package. I have a specialized need.

> Assume your project is myproj, version 1.2.3
> 
> Add this task:
> 
> 
>   file "myproj-1.2.3.tgz" => "pkg/myproj-1.2.3" do
>     chdir("pkg/pkg/myproj-1.2.3") do
>       sh %{tar zcvf ../../myproj-1.2.3.tgz *}
>     end
>   end
> 
> This will create a tgz file in the root of your project (rather than in 
> the pkg directory like the package task does).  Typing:
> 
>     rake myproj-1.2.3.tgz
> 
> will do the trick.
> 
> Does this help?

Yes, that works, thanks. I ended up just doing it without the Package 
task, and just using Find.find to generate the list of files, looping 
through it to weed out my complicated exclusions.

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