How to include an entire directory?

[yuriusu22]

EDIT

I found the line for the directory recursion:

data_tarfile.add(input_file_path, arcname=output_file, recursive=False)

Note: Setting recursive=False to True will enable directory recursion.
From Python docs: tarfile.TarFile.add

I think recursion should be enabled by default.

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I can't figure out how to include a directory. Does packaging an entire directory supported?

Suppose I have this setup:

.
├── bin
│   └── script
└── manifest.json

Can we just include the directory bin and be placed directly to the prefix (similar to how package.json#files works in npm)? Something like this:

"files": {
  "bin": "."
}

Would somehow result to this:

/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/bin/script

It would be very helpful for large number of files.

[ghost]

No, directory inclusion is not supported.

And generally, in my opinion, this script should be completely rewritten to use dpkg-deb for creating debfiles. This would fix issues like #18 and this one as packaging will be offloaded to standard utility for making debfiles.

[yuriusu22]

No, directory inclusion is not supported.

As a workaround to my problem, I've edited the Python script and enabled recursion to true (see my post above).

And generally, in my opinion, this script should be completely rewritten to use dpkg-deb for creating debfiles. This would fix issues like #18 and this one as packaging will be offloaded to standard utility for making debfiles.

I agree. It's been a couple of years since this is updated. It's time to rewrite this 😄 .

[yuriusu22]

Closing as fix merged with pull #21.