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| author | John Thacker <johnthacker@gmail.com> | 2022-04-27 07:42:34 -0400 |
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| committer | John Thacker <johnthacker@gmail.com> | 2022-05-06 00:13:28 +0000 |
| commit | 81c67b3e05fc4229aa4a16e1c6ef379f779ca1a9 (patch) | |
| tree | e8a2e4cd52991634bbe0fff08ca12fe3bead8133 /.gitattributes | |
| parent | 5a48815fb46a76d6a8fc479c13f6aea9c9d94ae1 (diff) | |
packaging: Provide workaround for rpm-package from source tarball
Users might want to download a source tarball and build an RPM
package from it.
Have git-export-release.sh use git-archive's 'export-subst' feature
so that it can detect whether it is being run from a git repository
versus run from source extracted from a tarball produced by git-archive.
In the latter case, produce a helpful console message telling the
user to copy the downloaded tarball into the binary directory so
that the rpm-package target can succeed. Also update the Developer's
Guide to suggest this as well.
We could try to create our own archive using tar, but there are
several possible gotchas, such as in-source builds, excluding a build
directory that is a subdirectory of the source dir, excluding unknown
different build directories from previous builds, dealing with different
options in different versions of tar, etc. This is good enough for
the common case, and anyone who wants something more complicated can
hopefully create their own tarball.
Fix #15167
Diffstat (limited to '.gitattributes')
| -rw-r--r-- | .gitattributes | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes index c9ca36b067..d6e99cb389 100644 --- a/.gitattributes +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -6,3 +6,4 @@ .gitignore export-ignore .gitreview export-ignore tools/make-version.pl export-subst +packaging/source/git-export-release.sh.in export-subst |