[Mageia-dev] mgasoft

[nicolas vigier]

On Mon, 13 Feb 2012, Anssi Hannula wrote:

> 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?

Currently, it only generate a tarball from what is on the svn. It
doesn't run "make dist" or anything else.

> 
> 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...

I think it could run "make dist" before, but currently the mgasoft
command is used on the server to generate the tarball and publish it on
the mirrors, and it would not be safe to run makefile commands directly
on this server, so I think we need to change how tarballs are published.
Maybe generating the tarball on client and upload it with binrepo and
send the sha1sum to the server to publish it on mirrors, or generate it
on one of the build nodes.