how to create a self extracting tarball?

[Scott Sullivan]

>> I'm trying to streamline the installation of a tarball for an open source
>> project I maintain.    Currently the users manually undo the tarball and
>> then
>> manually execute a build script from within that tarball.  eg.
>>     
http://www.autopackage.org/

It's a shell based tar extracter, but also talks to the rpm database, iirc.

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