New file, copied from $GIT/torus/mkdist.sh, which has evolved to

become generic and configurable.

diff --git a/id-deb-build/mkdist.sh b/id-deb-build/mkdist.sh
new file mode 100755 (executable)
index 0000000..925d249
--- /dev/null
+++ b/id-deb-build/mkdist.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+die () {
+  echo >&2 "$@"
+  exit 1
+}
+
+if test -f IDMETA; then
+  . ./IDMETA
+else
+  echo "Warning: no IDMETA file.  Limping along anyway" >&2
+fi
+
+#we will keep this to get the project name
+DEBCHANGELOG=debian/changelog
+l=`head -1 $DEBCHANGELOG`
+
+if [ "x$NAME" != x ]; then
+  echo "Got name $NAME from IDMETA file"
+else
+  NAME=`echo $l|sed 's/ .*//g'`
+  echo "Warning: assuming name $NAME from debian/changelog"
+fi
+
+if [ "x$2" != x ]; then
+  echo "Overriding name $NAME with $2"
+  NAME=$2
+fi
+
+if [ "x$VERSION" != x ]; then
+  echo "Got version $VERSION from IDMETA file"
+else
+  FULLVERSION=`echo $l|sed 's/.*(//g'|sed 's/).*//g'`
+  VERSION=`echo $FULLVERSION|sed 's/-.*//g'`
+  echo "Warning: assuming version $VERSION from debian/changelog"
+fi
+
+if [ "x$1" != x ]; then
+  echo "Overriding version $VERSION with $1"
+  VERSION=$1
+fi
+
+git archive --format=tar --prefix=$NAME-$VERSION/ v${VERSION} > tmp.tar || die "This version is not tagged in Git";
+tar xf tmp.tar
+rm tmp.tar
+for file in debian $OMIT_FROM_DIST; do
+  echo "Omitting $file from distribution"
+  rm -r $NAME-$VERSION/$file
+done
+tar cfz $NAME-$VERSION.tar.gz $NAME-$VERSION
+rm -r $NAME-$VERSION