[Mageia-dev] mgasoft

Mon Feb 13 13:46:24 CET 2012

'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
+
+
+
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+
+Colin Guthrie
+colin(at)mageia.org
+http://colin.guthr.ie/
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