From: ramsdell@mitre.org (John D. Ramsdell)
To: linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Why enable the dist target?
Date: 03 Aug 2007 10:41:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ogtejikof2x.fsf@oolong.mitre.org> (raw)
Let me give two reasons for enabling the dist target.
1. It makes it easier for those without access to the source code
repository to provide patches. With a distribution generated by
make dist, small modifications to a few Makefile.am files or the
configure.ac file are handled by the make command, which propagates
only the required updates. As a result, diff'ing produces a patch
that is comparable in size to the amount of changes made to source
files.
2. It makes it so that anyone with access to the source code
repository can generate the same distribution, as the dist target
alone specifies what files are to be included. Audit 1.5.6
included files such as auparse/test/test.log, which appear to be
files left over from testing.
I just wanted to explain why I took the time to send recent patches.
John
[ramsdell@goo audit-1.5.6]$ cat ac.diff
--- /home/ramsdell/a.txt 2007-07-30 07:51:13.000000000 -0400
+++ c.txt 2007-07-30 12:59:59.000000000 -0400
@@ -39,24 +42,22 @@
audit-1.5.6/auparse/test/auparse_test.ref
audit-1.5.6/auparse/test/Makefile.am
audit-1.5.6/auparse/test/Makefile.in
-audit-1.5.6/auparse/test/test2.log
-audit-1.5.6/auparse/test/test.log
-audit-1.5.6/auparse/test/tmp
-audit-1.5.6/auparse/test/tmp1
-audit-1.5.6/auparse/test/tmp2
audit-1.5.6/auparse/typetab.h
audit-1.5.6/AUTHORS
-audit-1.5.6/autogen.sh
audit-1.5.6/bindings/
audit-1.5.6/bindings/Makefile.am
+audit-1.5.6/bindings/Makefile.in
audit-1.5.6/bindings/python/
audit-1.5.6/bindings/python/auparse_python.c
audit-1.5.6/bindings/python/Makefile.am
+audit-1.5.6/bindings/python/Makefile.in
audit-1.5.6/bindings/python/setup.py
audit-1.5.6/ChangeLog
audit-1.5.6/compile
audit-1.5.6/config.guess
+audit-1.5.6/config.h.in
audit-1.5.6/config.sub
+audit-1.5.6/configure
audit-1.5.6/configure.ac
audit-1.5.6/contrib/
audit-1.5.6/contrib/avc_snap
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2007-08-03 14:41 John D. Ramsdell [this message]
2007-08-03 22:19 ` Why enable the dist target? Steve Grubb
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