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+#!/bin/sh
+#
+#  Tag a release
+#
+#  (C) 2007 -- Tom Eastep (teastep@shorewall.net)
+#
+#
+#     This program is under GPL [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.txt]
+#
+#	This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+#	it under the terms of Version 2 of the GNU General Public License
+#	as published by the Free Software Foundation.
+#
+#	This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+#	but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+#	MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+#	GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+#	You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+#	along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+#	Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
+#
+# Usage:
+#
+#       tagrelease <version>
+#
+[ $# -eq 1 ] || { echo "usage: tagrelease <version>" >&2; exit 1; }
+
+VERSION=$1
+
+case $VERSION in
+    4.0.*)
+	BRANCH=~/shorewall/4.0/
+	;;
+    4.1.*)
+	BRANCH=~/shorewall/trunk/
+	;;
+    *)
+	BRANCH=~/shorewall/3.4/
+	;;
+esac
+
+cd ~/shorewall/tags/
+
+svn mkdir $VERSION
+
+cd $VERSION
+
+for package in shorewall-common shorewall-shell shorewall-lite shorewall-perl manpages manpages-lite Samples; do
+    if [ -d $BRANCH/$package ]; then
+	rm -f $BRANCH/$package/*~
+	[ -d $BRANCH/Shorewall ] && rm -f $BRANCH/$package/Shorewall/*~
+	svn cp $BRANCH/$package/ .
+    fi
+fi
+
+svn commit -m "Tag version $VERSION"
+