diff --git a/IPython/Release.py b/IPython/Release.py
index 952f575..1102a61 100644
--- a/IPython/Release.py
+++ b/IPython/Release.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 """Release data for the IPython project.
 
-$Id: Release.py 1961 2006-12-05 21:02:40Z vivainio $"""
+$Id: Release.py 1965 2006-12-07 16:07:14Z vivainio $"""
 
 #*****************************************************************************
 #       Copyright (C) 2001-2006 Fernando Perez <fperez@colorado.edu>
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ name = 'ipython'
 # because bdist_rpm does not accept dashes (an RPM) convention, and
 # bdist_deb does not accept underscores (a Debian convention).
 
-revision = '1955'
+revision = '1964M'
 
 #version = '0.7.3.svn' 
 
diff --git a/tools/make_tarball.py b/tools/make_tarball.py
index 93e39b1..4fb2166 100644
--- a/tools/make_tarball.py
+++ b/tools/make_tarball.py
@@ -1,13 +1,18 @@
-import os
+import os,sys,shutil
 
-repo = "http://ipython.scipy.org/svn/ipython/trunk"
+repo = "http://ipython.scipy.org/svn/ipython/ipython/trunk"
 basename = 'ipython'
 workdir = './mkdist'
 
 workdir = os.path.abspath(workdir)
+
+print "working at",workdir
 def oscmd(c):
     print ">",c
-    os.system(c)
+    s = os.system(c)
+    if s:
+        print "Error",s
+        sys.exit(s)
 
 
 assert not os.path.isdir(workdir)
@@ -15,7 +20,8 @@ os.mkdir(workdir)
 os.chdir(workdir)
 
 oscmd('svn co %s %s' % (repo,basename))
-ver = os.popen('svnversion %s' % basename)
+ver = os.popen('svnversion %s' % basename).read().strip()
 tarname = '%s.r%s.tgz' % (basename, ver)
-oscmd('tar czvf %s %s' % (tarname, basename))
+oscmd('tar czvf ../%s %s' % (tarname, basename))
+print "Produced: ",os.path.abspath('../' + tarname)
 shutil.rmtree(workdir)