Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] build: add make dist target (v2)

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>]

Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> writes:

> On 07/17/12 21:12, Michael Roth wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 01:33:32PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>> Let's stop screwing up releases by having a script do the work that Anthony's
>>> fat fingers can't seem to get right.
>>>
>>> Cc: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
>> 
>> Breaks if there's no tag corresponding with the contents of VERSION,
>> but that might be considered a feature (an alternative might be to
>> assume it's a development release, use current HEAD for master, and append the
>> short git hash to the version). Works well as far as I can tell though,
>> and I made a special point to confirm it did indeed output a bz2 :)
>
> Or just use 'git describe --long' to figure what the version is.  This
> way you can easily build a tarball for any git commit, and a release
> tarball is just 'git checkout v$version; make dist'.

As long as it doesn't break release tarballs, I'm very open to patches
to make this more generally useful.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
> cheers,
>   Gerd