tar has the following option in `man tar` [--exclude PATTERN ] so you can exclude anything you dont want in there. There is not going to be package system that is one size fits all short of a tar ball On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Alex Dean wrote: > For our Rails application at my job (which bundles Ruby, Apache, Postgres, > etc, etc...), we install everything into a scratch directory, use find to > remove all .svn files, and make a tarball of the result. There's a lot more > that goes on, but that's the basic process. > > The customer just unpacks the tarball and runs a script to fire the whole > thing up. We don't support Windows for this app, so I don't have any > experience packaging for that platform. I think our other products which do > run on Windows use an InstallShield installer. > > alex > > > On Mar 11, 2010, at 3:47 PM, Eric Cope wrote: > > It needs to be deployed to Linux and Windows. I can't just tar /dir >> because I have .svn files I don't want to include as well as test >> directories. I planned on using a form of tar/zip. >> >> Eric >> >> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 2:16 PM, James Finstrom < >> jfinstrom@rhinoequipment.com> wrote: >> What distro is it running, It is pretty simple to make RPM's >> >> You can also as suggested simply tar it up tar -czvf myapp.tar.gz >> /full/path/to/app/ >> On the server tar -xzvf myapp.tar.gz -C / >> >> >> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Eric Cope wrote: >> Its a web app intended to install on internal web servers that should not >> have public access. >> >> >> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 1:57 PM, keith smith >> wrote: >> If this is a web app, then, why not use FTP? >> >> ------------------------ >> Keith Smith >> >> >> --- On Thu, 3/11/10, Craig White wrote: >> >> > From: Craig White >> > Subject: Re: OT: Method of packaging software for shipment >> > To: "Main PLUG discussion list" >> > Date: Thursday, March 11, 2010, 10:27 AM >> > On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 10:19 -0700, >> > Eric Cope wrote: >> > > Hello all, >> > > I am wrapping a web application that is meant for >> > installation on my >> > > customer's servers. Does anyone have experience >> > packaging up software >> > > for shipment? What tools do you use? Can you offer any >> > advice? >> > ---- >> > probably just a tar/gzip but that would actually depend on >> > what the >> > application language is (php?) and what if any resources >> > need to be made >> > available (i.e. scripts for initializing an sql db, etc.) >> > and also the >> > platform (i.e. redhat only, or linux in general or all >> > possible OS >> > types). >> > >> > Craig >> > >> > >> > -- >> > This message has been scanned for viruses and >> > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is >> > believed to be clean. >> > >> > --------------------------------------------------- >> > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail >> > settings: >> > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> >> -- >> James Finstrom >> Rhino Equipment Corp. >> http://rhinoequipment.com ~ http://postug.com >> Phone: 1-877-RHINO-T1 ~ FAX: +1 (480) 961-1826 >> Twitter: http://twitter.com/rhinoequipment >> IP: guest@asterisk.rhinoequipment.com >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- James Finstrom Rhino Equipment Corp. http://rhinoequipment.com ~ http://postug.com Phone: 1-877-RHINO-T1 ~ FAX: +1 (480) 961-1826 Twitter: http://twitter.com/rhinoequipment IP: guest@asterisk.rhinoequipment.com