Andreas Rottmann <[email protected]> writes: > Derick Eddington <[email protected]> writes: >> If so, it's still almost as easy to manually install: cd >> /searched-dir/ported tar -x -f xyz.tar.gz right? >> > Yes, with the caveat that you'd have to exclude metadata; e.g.: > > cd /searched-dir/ported && tar -xf foo-0.1.0.tar.gz --exclude=pkg-list.scm > [ Sorry for following up to myself. ]
Additionally, I think a reasonable repository also has README and other upstream files in the top-level directory, and as not-as-important note: most UNIX users expect a tarball create a single, top-level directory (at least I do ;-)). Regards, Rotty -- Andreas Rottmann -- <http://rotty.yi.org/>
