From b9f1e87604bab5786e530318e7f3b15ccb737b30 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 16:55:18 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] use git archive, rather than cabal sdist for making
 single-commit git repo

This makes the symlinks be preserved, which it seems cabal does not do.
---
 Makefile | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index dec7f05..7b47c86 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -22,9 +22,8 @@ dist/setup-config: propellor.cabal
 install:
 	install -d $(DESTDIR)/usr/bin $(DESTDIR)/usr/src/propellor
 	install -s dist/build/propellor/propellor $(DESTDIR)/usr/bin/propellor
-	$(CABAL) sdist
 	mkdir -p dist/gittmp
-	cat dist/propellor-*.tar.gz | (cd dist/gittmp && tar zx --strip-components=1)
+	git archive HEAD - | (cd dist/gittmp && tar zx)
 	cd dist/gittmp && git init && \
 		git add . \
 		&& git commit -q -m "distributed version of propellor" \