Release sources

[Gedare Bloom]

On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 9:40 AM Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org> wrote:
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> On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 10:17 AM Gedare Bloom <gedare at rtems.org> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 7:28 AM Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org> wrote:
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>> > On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 2:26 AM Sebastian Huber <sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de> wrote:
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>> >> On 26/03/2020 07:54, Chris Johns wrote:
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>> >> On 2020-03-20 14:57, Chris Johns wrote:
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>> >> 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.
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>> >> I will place all source in `sources`.
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>> >> Sorry I missed this email. Placing the sources in a directory is an improvement from my point of view.
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>> +1
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>> > Does this mean you will end up with one source tarball with every repo in it?
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>> 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.).
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>> 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/
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>> 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/
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> Hmm.. Why would we mix RTEMS originated source packages with
> third party source and patches. This directory is already quite lengthy.
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> I must have missed the clear statement of what the advantage is.
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The advantage is that all the source that belongs to the release is
consolidated. all rtems packages are prepended by rtems- so they are
still easily identifiable in the sources subdirectory.

Ideally, the readme will simply direct the user to run the
script/command necessary to build things :) I think this is simpler,
and users will still be able to find specific sources as they need by
looking in one place.

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