patch to avoid sdist-generated MANIFEST files

[Matt Mackall]

On Sun, 2010-08-01 at 23:18 +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Here's a patch that will ensure that distutils sdist command will
> never try to create a MANIFEST file, since the Mercurial project has
> its own for this one.
> 
> It's a dumb patch but it'll works for python 2.4 to python 2.7 until
> we provide a more suitable --no-manifest option in distutils
> 
> see: http://bugs.python.org/issue8688
> 
> Let me know if this works in your process, I'll hang on this list for that

Hmm, still fails with 2.6:

warning: hgsdist: manifest template 'MANIFEST.in' does not exist (using
default file list)

My release script runs 'make dist', extracts the resulting tarball, then
builds it to make sure everything worked. With 2.5, it succeeds, with
2.6 it fails to build due to util.h not making it into the tarball.

$ diff -u <(hg manifest) <(tar tf mercurial-1.6.2.tar.gz | sed
's/mercurial-1.6.2\///') | diffstat
 62 | 1057
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 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1046 deletions(-)


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