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COPYFILE_DISABLE=1 gnutar on Mac OS X will disable such files, at least those created by Apple tar. gnutar is included with Mac OS X. E.g., > COPYFILE_DISABLE=1 gnutar -czf modflow-mac-gfortran.tar.gz Unix Larry Baker US Geological Survey 650-329-5608 baker@xxxxxxxx On 20 Nov 2013, at 3:46 AM, huebbe wrote: > Dear Netcdf developers, > I just wanted to bring to your attention that the current source code > distribution "netcdf-4.3.0.tar.gz" is riddled with a multitude of files > starting with "._". There is one such invisible file for each and every > visible file or directory. Introspection of these files revealed some > MacOS-X system as the culprit, on which the ".tar.gz" was presumably > generated. Especially nasty is the fact, that there is even one such > file outside the top level directory "._netcdf-4.3.0", which will not be > automatically destroyed when the unpacked directory is removed. > > Please be sure not to include such files in future source distributions. > > One easy way to be safe from such unwanted files within a tarball is to > use `git archive` to generate the distribution tarballs. This will > ignore any files not under version control. Maybe other version control > systems have similar features, but I don't know about them. > > Cheers, > Nathanael Hübbe > > _______________________________________________ > netcdfgroup mailing list > netcdfgroup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > For list information or to unsubscribe, visit: > http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/mailing_lists/
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