Re: Removing Mac OS X resource forks from distribution tarballs

[Peter O'Gorman]

On 03/31/2011 12:28 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hello Dave,
>
> * Dave Hart wrote on Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:06:02PM CEST:
> > Right, one approach would be to run a dist-hook which strips all
> > resource forks from distdir files.

It's not really about resource forks, Extended Attributes and Access 
Control Lists appear in ._ files when not expanded on HFS filesystems.

> > An equally effective approach which Automake could potentially handle
> > generally on Darwin would be to instruct tar to ignore resource forks
> > when creating the tar file.
>
> Please show how that would work.

I don't believe tar has an option to not store EAs and ACLs.

> That would incur additional cost the size of the whole source tree, not
> just the size of the resource forks.  To me, that seems prohibitive for
> large source trees, and moreso for all trees not affected, or not on
> Darwin.

While it is a little ugly to see those ._ files when you extract a 
distribution that was created on Mac OS X, they cause no real issue.

Peter