how to build a github release tarball
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. -- Best Regards, Jiatong Shen
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/ 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. 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. Did that answer your question? Martin
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Best Regards,
Jiatong Shen
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. -- Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization
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