Release sources

[Joel Sherrill]

On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 10:17 AM Gedare Bloom <gedare at rtems.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 7:28 AM Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 2:26 AM Sebastian Huber <
> sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 26/03/2020 07:54, Chris Johns wrote:
> >>
> >> On 2020-03-20 14:57, Chris Johns wrote:
> >>
> >> Only having sources in `sources` is a change from how RTEMS has been
> released in
> >> the past so I feel this needs to be discussed and approved before I
> make any
> >> changes.
> >>
> >>
> >> I will place all source in `sources`.
> >>
> >> Sorry I missed this email. Placing the sources in a directory is an
> improvement from my point of view.
> >
> +1
>
> >
> > Does this mean you will end up with one source tarball with every repo
> in it?
> >
> A release contains basically a snapshot of all source code that goes
> into it, including tools. The 'sources' directory will contain all of
> those snapshots, each one a tarball of the respective source (e.g.,
> automake-x.y.z, rtems-x.y, etc.).
>
> Look at the 4.11.3 release for an example of how it was being done:
> https://ftp.rtems.org/pub/rtems/releases/4.11/4.11.3/
>
> See that there is a sources directory, but that we also put "our"
> source in the top-level. Chris' plan is to also put the rtems-*.tar.xz
> underneath sources/
>

Hmm.. Why would we mix RTEMS originated source packages with
third party source and patches. This directory is already quite lengthy.

I must have missed the clear statement of what the advantage is.


> (I discussed with him briefly before, and am in favor of this
> approach, but held my vote :))
>
> > --joel
> >
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