Tar Pack
Package and un-package modules of some sort (in tar/gz bundles). This is mostly useful for package managers. Note that it doesn't check for or touch package.json
so it can be used even if that's not the way you store your package info.
Installation
$ npm install tar-pack
API
pack(folder|packer, [options])
Pack the folder at folder
into a gzipped tarball and return the tgz as a stream. Files ignored by .gitignore
will not be in the package.
You can optionally pass a fstream.DirReader
directly, instead of folder. For example, to create an npm package, do:
Options:
noProprietary
(defaults tofalse
) Set this totrue
to prevent any proprietary attributes being added to the tarball. These attributes are allowed by the spec, but may trip up some poorly written tarball parsers.fromBase
(defaults tofalse
) Set this totrue
to make sure your tarballs root is the directory you pass in.ignoreFiles
(defaults to['.gitignore']
) These files can specify files to be excluded from the package using the syntax of.gitignore
. This option is ignored if you parse afstream.DirReader
instead of a string for folder.filter
(defaults toentry => true
) A function that takes an entry and returnstrue
if it should be included in the package andfalse
if it should not. Entryies are of the form{path, basename, dirname, type}
where (type is "Directory" or "File"). This function is ignored if you parse afstream.DirReader
instead of a string for folder.
Example:
var write = createWriteStreamvar pack = pack
unpack(folder, [options,] cb)
Return a stream that unpacks a tarball into a folder at folder
. N.B. the output folder will be removed first if it already exists.
The callback is called with an optional error and, as its second argument, a string which is one of:
'directory'
, indicating that the extracted package was a directory (either.tar.gz
or.tar
)'file'
, incating that the extracted package was just a single file (extracted todefaultName
, see options)
Basic Options:
defaultName
(defaults toindex.js
) If the package is a single file, rather than a tarball, it will be "extracted" to this file name, set tofalse
to disable.
Advanced Options (you probably don't need any of these):
gid
- (defaults tonull
) thegid
to use when writing filesuid
- (defaults tonull
) theuid
to use when writing filesdmode
- (defaults to0777
) The mode to use when creating directoriesfmode
- (defaults to0666
) The mode to use when creating filesunsafe
- (defaults tofalse
) (on non win32 OSes it overridesgid
anduid
with the current processes IDs)strip
- (defaults to1
) Number of path segments to strip from the root when extractingkeepFiles
- (defaults tofalse
) Set this totrue
to prevent target directory to be removed. Extracted files overwrite existing files.
Example:
var read = createReadStreamvar unpack = unpack
License
BSD