+# make autopoint to use tar.gz archives instead of cvs repository
+install -d archive-cvs/{prepare,archive}
+tar xzf gettext-tools/misc/archive.tar.gz -C archive-cvs/prepare
+cvs -d$(pwd)/archive-cvs/prepare/archive init
+cd archive-cvs/archive
+cvs -Q -d$(pwd)/../prepare/archive -q co .
+for rev in $(cvs status -v | grep '(revision:' | awk ' { print $1 } ' | sort -u); do
+ cvs -Q up -d -r $rev
+ cd ..
+ tar czf archive-${rev}.tar.gz archive --exclude=CVS
+ cd archive
+done
+cd ../..
+