Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
I think it was part of a trac page.
Oh - yeah, I guess it's possible to get tarballs out of trac.
Anyway, a canonical download location for flashrom is the way to go.
Yes for sure! It would be nice to have a flashrom directory in qa/snapshots/
The posthook will be simple with these Makefile changes.
+# Note to packagers: Any tree exported with "make export" or "make tarball" +# will not require subversion.
Do we need to say so? It think it is really intuitive that a snapshot doesn't require svn.
Considering that packagers patch it out at the moment, I'd like to give them a hint that make export solves the issue.
Or we can provide tarballs. Everyone likes tarballs.
Having the revision in releases+snapshots also allows us to quickly go to the correct revision without having to look it up or switch branches.
Sure.
Plus, it kills two unnecessary commits per release.
Only unneccessary if they feel that way.
Well, it exports the working copy, which might have changes. At least add -r to the export.
Again, it's not really the repo contents. With -r it is, then maybe just say Created $filename because tar and the rev are part of the filename?
OK. Should we use the (unmodified) repo contents or the directory contents?
svn export -r from a path gives both. See --help
If the unique atom in the export is the rev number, I think it makes sense to try to avoid changes made after that rev.
Really in the README? Do we have INSTALL? Maybe it's time?
Good point. I'd postpone splitting to another patch, though.
I have no strong opinion.
//Peter