l.c.c.tarball : module documentation

Create and extract tarballs.

Class	TarError	Raised when the `tar` command has failed for some reason.
Class	NotADirectory	Undocumented
Function	create_tarball	Create a tarball of `directory` called `tarball_name`.
Function	extract_tarball	Extract contents of a tarball.
Function	_check_tar_retcode	Undocumented

def _check_tar_retcode(retcode):

Undocumented

def create_tarball(directory, tarball_name, filenames=None):

Create a tarball of directory called tarball_name.

This creates a tarball of directory from its parent directory. This means that when untarred, it will create a new directory with the same name as directory. If filenames is not None, then the tarball will be limited to that list of directory entries under directory.

Basically, this is the standard way of making tarballs.

def extract_tarball(tarball_name, directory):

Extract contents of a tarball.

Changes to directory and extracts the tarball at tarball_name.

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