Hi Karl,
* Karl Berry wrote on Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 01:30:25AM CET:
> Bruce Korb pointed out that ncftpput is far from universal.
> Maybe a patch like this?
Thanks! and sorry for the delay. Pushed to maint, merged in master and
branch-1.11.
Cheers,
Ralf
commit 77d43d3879a750c549bd3efd27b8e344a685ff72
Author: Karl Berry <k...@freefriends.org>
Date: Mon Dec 21 22:22:31 2009 +0100
mention ncftpput in gnupload --help
* lib/gnupload: Mention ncftpput in `--help' output.
Report by Bruce Korb.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de>
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index ce2d912..cb8b54b 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2009-12-21 Karl Berry <k...@freefriends.org>
+
+ mention ncftpput in gnupload --help
+ * lib/gnupload: Mention ncftpput in `--help' output.
+ Report by Bruce Korb.
+
2009-12-05 Antonio Diaz Diaz <ant_d...@teleline.es>
Replace unlzma, gunzip, bunzip2 with pack tool -d invocation.
diff --git a/lib/gnupload b/lib/gnupload
index 104f8ad..bd120e8 100755
--- a/lib/gnupload
+++ b/lib/gnupload
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
#!/bin/sh
# Sign files and upload them.
-scriptversion=2009-11-29.20; # UTC
+scriptversion=2009-12-21.21; # UTC
# Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation
#
@@ -96,6 +96,11 @@ Examples:
--delete oopsbar-0.9.91.tar.gz \\
-- foobar-0.9.91.tar.gz
+gnupload uses the ncftpput program to do the transfers; if you don't
+happen to have an ncftp package installed, the ncftpput-ftp script in
+the build-aux/ directory of the gnulib package
+(http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnulib) may serve as a replacement.
+
Report bugs to <bug-autom...@gnu.org>.
Send patches to <automake-patches@gnu.org>."
