Hi All, I found it most unfair that sane-frontends didn't get the same snapshot tarball treatment as sane-backends does so I set up a simple CI job over on GitLab.com. All it does is roll a source tarball. Nothing more. It doesn't even try to compile the sources. But! We now have a
sane-frontends-1.0.14-31-gc1b7785-dirty.tar.gz on http://sane-project.org/snapshots/ Now I'm wondering if I should drop the daily git archives ... # ... and update the SANE - Download web page[1]. # [1]: http://sane-project.org/source.html For those of you running cron jobs against those git archives, perhaps now is your chance to speak your mind (or change your cron job ;-) Olaf Meeuwissen writes: > Hi Allan, > > About two weeks ago I wrote on the sane-devel mailing list: > >> Dear list, >> >> [ ... creating `git describe --dirty` versioned tarballs ...] >> >> So then, what does happen on Alioth when the daily snapshots are made? >> These snapshots are, unsurprisingly, courtesy of a daily cron job. It >> runs something close to >> >> git archive --format=tar master | gzip > sane-backends-$DATE.tar.gz >> >> I've tried to run `make dist` on Alioth. No such luck. [...] >> >> The fact you cannot run `make dist` on Alioth is probably why the daily >> snapshots are just `git archive`s, but those archives are not made the >> way as our release tarballs. And that bugs me. Maybe I should change >> that cron job to pull the tarballs from GitLab.com ... > > Well, I did just that and ran it manually without any hitch. There is > now an extra snapshot[1] that is made the same way we roll our release > tarballs. > > [1] http://sane-project.org/snapshots/ > > This snapshot corresponds to the most current git checkout that passed > the CI build at GitLab.com. > > The updated make-git-snapshots.sh should (famous last words!) run > without any trouble and produce no output. If, however, you start > receiving mail from your daily sane cronjob, just forward it to me > and I'll fix it up. Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9 Support Free Software https://my.fsf.org/donate Join the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/join -- sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" to sane-devel-requ...@lists.alioth.debian.org