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Gem::Package::TarOutput

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TarOutput is a wrapper to TarWriter that builds gem-format tar file.

Gem-format tar files contain the following files:

data.tar.gz

A gzipped tar file containing the files that compose the gem which will be extracted into the gem/ dir on installation.

metadata.gz

A YAML format Gem::Specification.

data.tar.gz.sig

A signature for the gem’s data.tar.gz.

metadata.gz.sig

A signature for the gem’s metadata.gz.

See TarOutput::open for usage details.

Files

  • lib/rubygems/package/tar_output.rb