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Mac OS X for Unix Geeks
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Mac OS X for Unix Geeks

by Ernest E. Rothman, Brian Jepson
September 2002
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
216 pages
7h 43m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Creating and Publishing the Tarball

The Fink package system needs a tarball that can be downloaded with the curl utility, so you should put these two files into a directory, such as hellow-1.0. Then, create a tarball containing these files and that top-level directory, and put it somewhere where you can get it. In this example, the tarball is created and moved to the local Shared folder:

[localhost:~/src] bjepson% tar cvfz hellow-1.0.tar.gz hellow-1.0/
hellow-1.0/
hellow-1.0/hellow.1
hellow-1.0/hellow.c
hellow-1.0/Makefile
[localhost:~/src] bjepson% cp hellow-1.0.tar.gz /Users/Shared

The curl utility can download this file with the following URL: file:///Users/Shared/hellow-1.0.tar.gz. (We could also have put the file on a public web server or FTP server.)

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