On Wednesday 13 June 2012 20:08:57 Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> As we approach the 2.16 release I am reminded that building
> tarballs for the ports add-on is broken.
> 
> For the 2.15 release I had to build the tarballs manually.
> 
> I'd like this to be automated like it is for glibc core
> where we get a .tar.bz2, .tar.gz, and .tar.xz.
> 
> Any takers?

isn't it just:
	git archive --prefix=glibc-ports-2.16/ glibc-2.16 | xz \
		> glibc-ports-2.16.tar.xz
-mike