makeself

script generating a self-extractible .tgz from a directory

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  1. Package version
    makeself-2.5.0
  2. Maintainer
    The OpenBSD ports mailing-list

makeself is a shell script that generates a self-extractable tar.gz archive from
a directory. The resulting file appears as a shell script, and can be launched
as is. The archive will then uncompress itself to a temporary directory and an
arbitrary command will be executed (for example an installation script). This is
pretty similar to archives generated with WinZip Self-Extractor in the Windows
world.