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Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:33:03 +0200
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Subject: Re: New package: makeself-2.1.5-2
From: David Sastre <d DOT sastre DOT medina AT gmail DOT com>
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Hello,

>Shouldn't this be:
>$ makeself.sh -h ?

Yes. The correct way to invoke makeself is calling `makeself.sh'.

/usr/bin/makeself-header.sh
/usr/bin/makeself.sh

>Why are we using the '.sh' extension with 'makeself', again?

Upstream sources keep the extension, other distros strip it, i.e. Debian
It looks like there is not a strict policy defined, anyway:

$ ls /usr/bin | egrep "\.(pl|py|sh|rb)" | wc -l
161

Regards.






2010/4/28, Lee D. Rothstein <l1ee057 AT veritech DOT com>:
> david sastre wrote:
>> New package "makeself-2.1.5-2" has been uploaded.
>>
>> makeself is a small shell script that generates a self-extractable
>> archive from a directory. The resulting file appears as a shell script
>> (many of those have a .run suffix), and can be launched as is. The
>> archive will then uncompress itself to a temporary directory and an
>> optional arbitrary command will be executed (for example an installation
>> script). Makeself archives also include checksums for integrity
>> self-validation (CRC and/or MD5 checksums).
>>
>> Usage:
>>
>> makeself.sh [params] archive_dir file_name label [startup_script] [args]
>>
>> More info:
>>
>> makeself -h
>>
>
> Shouldn't this be:
>
> $ makeself.sh -h ?
>
> Not that I want extraneous extensions, anyways.
>
> Why are we using the '.sh' extension with 'makeself', again?
>
>> man makeself
>>
> Does it make sense that?:
>
> $ man makeself
>
> works but:
>
> $ makeself -h
>
> doesn't?
>
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> makeselflessLee ;-)
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