Copy files for multi-file packages as individuals,

[milkypostman]

rather than duplicating the repository.

[purcell]

Yeah, this basically looks good. I've a suspicion that some recipes expect to have subdirectories full of data files etc.

[purcell]

I think basedir might be unnecessary. Here's an idea: if all the :files patterns expand to files within the same directory, then that must be the basedir. So if you expand all the :files, you can look for the closest common parent directory, and tar up files relative to that.

[milkypostman]

Yes, that is a great idea. OR the shortest path to any file in the files list. Because technically there needs to be some file in the root directory.

OK, let me have another day at this. I'm going to go finish some grading first and then I'll give this some treatment in the afternoon.

[purcell]

Yes, I think that's sort of how I saw it working in my head. :-)