[lokisetup] makeself compression and hidden files

[Stephane Peter]

I guess the main reason I didn't bother with this was with the 
potentially dangerous reference to the .. directory. I guess your 
regular expression would take care of that, assuming of course it is 
portable, which I believe it is.

The command line option seems like a good idea, especially if we're 
going to change the behavior of the command.

On Nov 11, 2004, at 2:39 AM, Daniel Aleksandrow wrote:

> Is there a reason that makeself doesn't include hidden 
> files/directories
> when it makes the archive?
>
> Something similar to this will fix this:
>
> CHANGE THIS:
> (cd "$archdir" && ( tar $TAR_ARGS -  * | eval "$GZIP_CMD" ) >>
> "$tmpfile") || { echo Aborting: Archive directory not found or 
> temporary
> file: "$tmpfile" could not be created.; rm -f "$tmpfile"; exit 1; }
>
> TO THIS:
> (cd "$archdir" && ( tar $TAR_ARGS - .[^.]* * | eval "$GZIP_CMD" ) >>
> "$tmpfile") || { echo Aborting: Archive directory not found or 
> temporary
> file: "$tmpfile" could not be created.; rm -f "$tmpfile"; exit 1; }
>
> ie add .[^.]*
>
> But if there's a specific reason it isn't included, could it become a
> command line option?
>
> Thanks
>
> Dan.a
>
>
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Stéphane Peter
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