Re: Announce: tcpdump 3.9.8 and libpcap 0.9.8 released

[Max Laier <max () love2party net>]

On Tuesday 02 October 2007, Michael Richardson wrote:
> > > > > > "Max" == Max Laier <max () love2party net> writes:
>
>     Max> On Wednesday 26 September 2007, Ken Bantoft wrote:
>     >> I'm pleased to announce the release of tcpdump 3.9.8 and libpcap
>     >> 0.9.8, which are now available at http://www.tcpdump.org .
>     >> Please verify with PGP/GPG the signatures to ensure you have
>     >> downloaded legitimate packages, and that no corruption has taken
>     >> place.  The PGP/ GPG public key is available on the keyservers,
>     >> and at http:// www.tcpdump.org/tcpdump-workers.asc
>
>     Max> Looks like a bit of CVS garbage slipped into the release
>     Max> tarballs:
>
>   Yes.
>
>   So, the idea was that "releasetar" target (in the Makefile), couldn't
> be run until you had actually done at least ./configure, and ideally, a
> make and a make test.
>
>   Unfortunately, it also encourages one to do a release from a dirty
> directory.  Suggestions...?

Nasty and probably not 100% portable, but something along these lines 
might do the trick.

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