release: automate and document

Add a brief description of how to release initscripts. Also automate
the creation of the tarball using "make release".

Signed-off-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 520700b..0ec54ee 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,4 +1,10 @@
-minilogd: minilogd.o
+VER:=$(shell sh -c 'git describe')
+
+minilogd:
+	minilogd.o
 
 clean:
 	rm -f minilogd minilogd.o
+
+release:
+	git archive HEAD --prefix=initscripts-$(VER)/ | xz > initscripts-$(VER).tar.xz