[Mageia-dev] mgasoft

[Anssi Hannula]

On 06.02.2012 16:57, nicolas vigier wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> While updating youri and iurt packages yesterday I noticed that it's
> not easy to make new versions of mageia software that we have on svn
> soft repository, and each of them has different makefile rules to
> generate tarballs or sometimes update packages. Most versions are not
> tagged because you have to write a long command line to do it. So in
> the train from fosdem yesterday I created a small script to tag versions,
> create tarballs and publish them on mageia mirrors, for the software on
> svn soft repository.
> 
> You can install it with mgasoft package on cauldron.
> 
> To tag a new version :
> $ mgasoft tag [name] [version]
> 
> To create a tarball :
> $ mgasoft tar [name] [version]
> Or a tarball from trunk, for testing :
> $ mgasoft tar [name] trunk

As you say, there is some variation in how tarballs are made. How does
this 'tar' command generate the tarball?

It is common for the "make dist" (or whatever) to package additional
files not present in SVN to the tarball, such as 'configure' et al or
'ChangeLog' (generated from SVN), so one can't directly just put the
trunk directory in the tarball...

> To publish a tarball on mageia mirrors :
> $ mgasoft publish [name] [version]
> This will create this file on mirrors :
> /software/[name]/[name]-[version].tar.xz
> 
> Some things that do not work now :
>  - software in sub-directories on the svn (like build_system/mgarepo or
>    build_system/iurt). We can change the script to support this, but it
>    will become more complicated and slower. Or we can move everything in
>    the root directory and stop using sub-directories like build_system.
> 
> Some things I plan to add :
>  - gpg signature of the files on mirrors
>  - upload of the files on binrepo, so you don't need to upload them when
>    updating the package
>  - option to download tarball from binrepo instead of generating it (to
>    create package using the same tarball as on mirrors)
>  - option to quickly see diff between two versions
> 


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Anssi Hannula