'Twas brillig, and nicolas vigier at 06/02/12 14:57 did gyre and gimble: > Hello, > > While updating youri and iurt packages yesterday I noticed that it's > not easy to make new versions of mageia software that we have on svn > soft repository, and each of them has different makefile rules to > generate tarballs or sometimes update packages. Most versions are not > tagged because you have to write a long command line to do it. So in > the train from fosdem yesterday I created a small script to tag versions, > create tarballs and publish them on mageia mirrors, for the software on > svn soft repository. > > You can install it with mgasoft package on cauldron. > > To tag a new version : > $ mgasoft tag [name] [version] > > To create a tarball : > $ mgasoft tar [name] [version] > Or a tarball from trunk, for testing : > $ mgasoft tar [name] trunk > > To publish a tarball on mageia mirrors : > $ mgasoft publish [name] [version] > This will create this file on mirrors : > /software/[name]/[name]-[version].tar.xz
Nice :) As a sometime hacker on these bits of code, I did get a bit confused about the variations. This will certainly help. Good work! Col -- Colin Guthrie colin(at)mageia.org http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/
