Generating release from git

Generating release from git

[Phillip Susi]

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How do you generate the release tarball from the git repo?  I thought
it would be to run make dist, but it seems the real release tarball is
bootstrapped with autogen.sh, but NOT configured, and make dist
generates a tarball that is already configured.

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Re: Generating release from git

[Karel Zak]

On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 07:32:18PM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote:
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> How do you generate the release tarball from the git repo?  I thought
> it would be to run make dist, but it seems the real release tarball is
> bootstrapped with autogen.sh, but NOT configured, and make dist
> generates a tarball that is already configured.

if you have autotools based build system than

   make distcheck

is only way how to generate reliable and consistent tarballs.
My release sequence is usually:

 git tag -s -m "release ${UL_NEXT_RELEASE}" ${UL_NEXT_RELEASE}
 git clean -xfd
 ./autogen.sh
 ./tools/config-gen devel    # or ./configure
 make -j
 make distcheck

note that build system uses tools/git-version-gen to get release
version so "git tag" is necessary to get proper release number.

    Karel

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 Karel Zak  <kzak@redhat.com>
 http://karelzak.blogspot.com

Re: Generating release from git

[Phillip Susi]

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On 11/8/2013 4:09 AM, Karel Zak wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 07:32:18PM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote:
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>> How do you generate the release tarball from the git repo?  I
>> thought it would be to run make dist, but it seems the real
>> release tarball is bootstrapped with autogen.sh, but NOT
>> configured, and make dist generates a tarball that is already
>> configured.
> 
> if you have autotools based build system than
> 
> make distcheck

Doesn't this do the same thing as make dist, only with a make check
and such thrown in?  So if you don't want to do the tests and just
generate the original tarball, make dist would do the trick right?
Yet it seems to leave files in the tarball that are NOT in the
official release.


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Re: Generating release from git

[Karel Zak]

On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 09:37:06AM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote:
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> On 11/8/2013 4:09 AM, Karel Zak wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 07:32:18PM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote:
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> >> How do you generate the release tarball from the git repo?  I
> >> thought it would be to run make dist, but it seems the real
> >> release tarball is bootstrapped with autogen.sh, but NOT
> >> configured, and make dist generates a tarball that is already
> >> configured.

 I see that after "make dist" the tarball is not configured (for
 example there is no config.h).

> > if you have autotools based build system than
> > 
> > make distcheck
> 
> Doesn't this do the same thing as make dist, only with a make check
> and such thrown in?

 Yes, it seems the same, but it does not call "make check" only
 but it also checks if the tarball is usable (it calls make,
 make install, etc.).

> So if you don't want to do the tests and just
> generate the original tarball, make dist would do the trick right?

 yes

> Yet it seems to leave files in the tarball that are NOT in the
> official release.

 Yes, for example .gitignore files etc.

    Karel

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 Karel Zak  <kzak@redhat.com>
 http://karelzak.blogspot.com

Re: Generating release from git

[Mike Frysinger]

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On Thursday 07 November 2013 19:32:18 Phillip Susi wrote:
> How do you generate the release tarball from the git repo?  I thought
> it would be to run make dist, but it seems the real release tarball is
> bootstrapped with autogen.sh, but NOT configured, and make dist
> generates a tarball that is already configured.

pretty sure that is incorrect.  `make dist` produces a tarball that has 
autotools generated so people can run `./configure`, but the tarball doesn't 
contain things produced by `./configure` itself.
-mike

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