Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for May, Tuesday 8th

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

On 05/08/2012 10:13 AM, Andreas Färber wrote:
> Am 08.05.2012 16:53, schrieb Andreas Färber:
>> Am 08.05.2012 16:24, schrieb Anthony Liguori:
>>> On 05/08/2012 09:10 AM, Andreas Färber wrote:
>>>> With rc0 not being provided as tarball, it would be nice to document the
>>>> official, reproducible way of packaging a QEMU tarball on the Wiki. I
>>>> have collected some steps from the Rob Landley mips thread, but the
>>>> submodules complicate things a bit.
>>
>> My request (not complaint) was for you to document how you create the
>> tarballs you publish, so that the adventurous can create them without
>> bothering you. :)
>
> For the record here's part of the script I came up with:
>
> TAG=v1.1-rc0
> NAME=qemu-1.1-rc0
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> git clone git://git.qemu.org/qemu.git $NAME || exit 1
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> cd $NAME || exit 1
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> git checkout $TAG || exit 1
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> git submodule update --init || exit 1
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> rm -rf .git roms/*/.git || exit 1
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> cd .. || exit 1
>
> tar -c $NAME | bzip2>  $NAME.tar.bz2

That's pretty close to what I do FWIW.

The script I have is a bit more involved as it also takes care of some qemu.org 
things.  I've always meant to add a make dist target but haven't got around to it.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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