From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Arturo Borrero Gonzalez <arturo.borrero.glez@gmail.com>
Cc: "Netfilter Users Mailing list" <netfilter@vger.kernel.org>,
"Rodolfo García Peñas" <kix@debian.org>
Subject: Re: About autogenerated files in Netfilter snapshots
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 13:35:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131223123506.GA5525@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOkSjBhsN2H=pc4gLLSyurYBmz3F=QaNJhB+L_UWmGg+tmNMbQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 01:15:14PM +0100, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> I've been examining some Netfilter snapshots, for example the nftables
> one (pick whichever revision) [0].
>
> They seem to include some autogenerated files, like 'configure', the
> 'autom4te.cache' dir, etc..
>
> Why snapshots are not just a copy of the git sources?
>
> Best regards.
>
> [0] http://ftp.netfilter.org/pub/nftables/snapshot/
This snapshot robot calls autoreconf -f to include all the scripts so
you can run ./configure as most users expect, that also generates the
autom4te.cache.
I can update the script to remove the autom4te.cache, let me know.
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2013-12-23 12:15 About autogenerated files in Netfilter snapshots Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
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