[Mageia-dev] mgasoft

Mon Feb 6 15:57:05 CET 2012

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
+
+Some things that do not work now :
+ - software in sub-directories on the svn (like build_system/mgarepo or
+   build_system/iurt). We can change the script to support this, but it
+   will become more complicated and slower. Or we can move everything in
+   the root directory and stop using sub-directories like build_system.
+
+Some things I plan to add :
+ - gpg signature of the files on mirrors
+ - upload of the files on binrepo, so you don't need to upload them when
+   updating the package
+ - option to download tarball from binrepo instead of generating it (to
+   create package using the same tarball as on mirrors)
+ - option to quickly see diff between two versions
+
+