Re: make dist using git archive

On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 2:36 AM Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org> wrote:
>
> On 22.01.24 13:10, Junwang Zhao wrote:
> > I played this with meson build on macOS, the packages are generated
> > in source root but not build root, I'm sure if this is by design but I think
> > polluting *working directory* is not good.
>
> Yes, it's not good, but I couldn't find a way to make it work.
>
> This is part of the complications with meson I referred to. The
> @BUILD_ROOT@ placeholder in custom_target() is apparently always a
> relative path, but it doesn't know that git -C changes the current
> directory.
>
> > Another thing I'd like to point out is, should we also introduce *git commit*
> > or maybe *git tag* to package name, something like:
> >
> > git archive --format tar.gz --prefix postgresql-17devel/ HEAD -o
> > postgresql-17devel-`git rev-parse --short HEAD`.tar.gz
> > git archive --format tar.gz --prefix postgresql-17devel/ HEAD -o
> > postgresql-`git describe --tags`.tar.gz
>
> I'm not sure why we would need it built-in. It can be done by hand, of
> course.

If this is only used by the release phase, one can do this by hand.

*commit id/tag* in package name can be used to identify the git source,
which might be useful for cooperation between QA and dev team,
but surely there are better ways for this, so I do not have a strong
opinion here.

>

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Regards
Junwang Zhao