[geeks] How to make a Tardist

[jdboyd at jdboyd.zill.net]

On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 04:08:42PM -0600, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 jdboyd at jdboyd.zill.net wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone here know how to properly construct SGI .tardist files?
> > I've been googling and googling, and googling, and I just can't seem to
> > find documentation on that.
> 
> A tardist is just a tarball of distribution files.  The gendist man page
> has more information on that.  There's a GUI tool for creating
> distributions called the "software packager" or some other similarly-
> named thing.

Ahh.  The gendist web page, unfortunately, doesn't have any sort of
quick start guide.  However, the swpkg command seems somewhat simple
enough.  Now running swpkg remotely to try to create my first package.
I should just find a cheapo Indigo2 for testing (or at least get a
decent CPU for my indy).