zpkg - a tool used to build software distributions based on the Python distutils package.

zpkg [options] resource

This manual page documents briefly the zpkg command.

This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below.

-h, --help

Show summary of options.

--version

Show version of program.

-v VERSION

version label for the new distribution

-C FILE, --configure=FILE

path or URL to the configuration file

-f

don't read a configuration file

-m MAP, --resource-map=MAP

specify an additional location map to load before maps specified in the configuration.

-a, --application

build an application distribution

-c, --collection

collect dependencies into the distribution

-n NAME, --name=NAME

base name of the distribution file build an application distribution

-r TAG, --revision-tag=TAG

default CVS tag to use (default: HEAD) build an application distribution

-S

don't include copies of the zpkgtools support code

-s

include copies of the zpkgtools support code (default)

-t, --tree

generate an unpacked distribution tree, not a tarball

--support=RESOURCE

name additional support package resource

--distribution=CLASS

name of the distribution class

-x PACKAGE, --exclude PACKAGE

resource to exclude the from distribution (dependencies will be ignored)

Full documentation is available in the /usr/share/doc/zpkg directory.

This manual page was written by Brian Sutherland jinty@web.de for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.