[Rake-devel] Specifying a tar command for a GemPackageTask

[Jim Weirich]

Daniel Berger wrote:
> 
> 
> On 11/6/06, *Jim Weirich* <jim at weirichhouse.org 
> <mailto:jim at weirichhouse.org>> wrote:
> 
> 
>     Daniel Berger said:
>      > I do have gtar installed on this system, but I need a way to tell the
>      > GemPackageTask to use it.  Is there a way to do that?  If not,
>     can we add
>      > it?
> 
>     This is a reasonable request.  Got a patch? 
> 
> 
> Yep:
> 
> --- packagetask.orig    Mon Nov  6 12:28:05 2006
> +++ packagetask.rb      Tue Nov  7 12:02:37 2006
> @@ -68,6 +68,9 @@
>      # List of files to be included in the package.
>      attr_accessor :package_files
>  
> +    # Tar command used for gzipped or bzip2'd archives.  The default is 
> 'tar'.
> +    attr_accessor :tar_command
> +
>      # Create a Package Task with the given name and version.
>      def initialize(name=nil, version=nil)
>        init(name, version)
> @@ -85,6 +88,7 @@
>        @need_tar_gz = false
>        @need_tar_bz2 = false
>        @need_zip = false
> +      @tar_command = 'tar'
>      end
>  
>      # Create the tasks defined by this task library.
> @@ -114,7 +118,7 @@
>           task :package => ["#{package_dir}/#{file}"]
>           file "#{package_dir}/#{file}" => [package_dir_path] + 
> package_files do
>             chdir(package_dir) do
> -             sh %{tar #{flag}cvf #{file} #{package_name}}
> +             sh %{#{@tar_command} #{flag}cvf #{file} #{package_name}}
>             end
>           end
>         end
>  
> That's against 0.7.1, not CVS.  Let me know if that's a problem and I'll 
> resubmit it.

I've applied this and the gem task description changes to my local 
working copy.  I also included a zip_command in the package task.  I'll 
commit these when I finish some other changes that are in progress.

-- Jim Weirich