Re: iw packaging

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 01:36 +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi Johannes,
> 
> > > Do you think it'd be worthwhile? I can probably automate that easily on
> > > wireless.kernel.org...
> > 
> > Since it's trivial, I'm now creating release tarballs for every tag on
> > http://wireless.kernel.org/iw/.
> 
> to make it easier for the packager, I would propose to remove the "v" in
> front of the version number.
> 
> I know you use that for your tags and using git-describe is so great,
> but for packaging the extra character is just in the way.

That's pretty simple. git-describe isn't even involved, this is my
script now:

#!/bin/sh

cd /home/wireless/www/download/iw/
export GIT_DIR=/home/johannes/git/iw.git/

for tag in $(git tag) ; do
        ver=${tag#v}
        archive=iw-$ver.tar.bz2
        if test -f $archive ; then
                continue
        fi
        git-archive --format=tar --prefix=iw-$ver/ $tag | bzip2 > $archive
done


johannes