Re: how to build a github release tarball
On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 04:44:43PM +0200, Martin Kletzander wrote:
On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 08:44:52PM +0800, Jiatong Shen wrote:
> Hello community,
>
> I am trying to figure out a way to build a release tarball like
> https://github.com/libvirt/libvirt/releases?after=v6.2.0, for libvirt
> 6.0.0, but don't know how.
> Could anyone teach me how to package it? thank you.
If you look at https://libvirt.org/downloads.html then there is a link
to release tarballs: https://libvirt.org/sources/
This is definitely the way to go.
If you want to build it yourself, then something along the lines of
`meson build && ninja -C build dist` should do, but it should not be
needed.
libvirt 6.0.0 was still using autotools ;)
Otherwise the tarball provided by github is just a snapshot of the
git
tree at the point in time of the tag and build needs to be done the same
way as building from git.
GitHub / GitLab "releases" are somewhere between git snapshots and
proper release tarballs in terms of contents, and for projects such
as libvirt they are basically unusable - the build process will break
in interesting ways very quickly. Pretend they don't exist and grab a
proper, signed source tarball from the location Martin pointed you to
instead.
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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization