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Content-Language: en-US From: Alejandro Colomar To: "G. Branden Robinson" Cc: groff mailing list , cgit@lists.zx2c4.com, Oliver Corff References: <2b5c5ec1-c432-fa3e-8880-bc59ae04e0f4@email.de> <20230424221409.62yozpbcqfzoptjs@illithid> <7f1e5e38-be73-c0b9-82be-f39f55a46626@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7f1e5e38-be73-c0b9-82be-f39f55a46626@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: cgit@lists.zx2c4.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.30rc1 Precedence: list List-Id: List for cgit developers and users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: cgit-bounces@lists.zx2c4.com Sender: "CGit" On 4/25/23 00:25, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > [CC += CGit] > > Hi Branden! > > On 4/25/23 00:14, G. Branden Robinson wrote: >> Hi Oliver, >> >> At 2023-04-24T22:40:23+0200, Oliver Corff wrote: >>> I went to https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git today to >>> download the rc4 tarball groff-1.23.0.rc4.tar.gz and unpacked the >>> archive. >> >> I've made the same mistake myself! >> >> The official distribution archives are not available via the cgit >> interface. cgit doesn't know about FSF deployment procedures and hasn't >> been taught. > > Curious way to put it. I wondered something along those lines recently: > Is it possible to teach cgit how to create a tarball? It would be nice > if I just made a tag and cgit would do the automated process necessary > for the tarball. > > Moreover, I considered not releasing tarballs anymore as a possibility, > since one can produce them following some repeatable command. > > Would I be able to teach cgit to run > > $ make dist-gz > > And then find the tarball in ./.tmp/$(git describe).tar.gz ? Probably not. My guess is that cgit just calls git-archive(1). > > Cheers, > Alex > >> >> As noted in the RC announcement email[1], you need to get the >> distribution archive from the alpha.gnu.org website. >> >> https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/groff/ >> >>> How do I configure the makefile? I fail to see a ./configure script. >> >> Carlos's response here was correct--you have to use the INSTALL.REPO >> instructions if you want to build from the Git repository--but if you >> want to provide feedback on the release candidate, then that's not the >> procedure to follow. >> >> Regards, >> Branden >> >> [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2023-04/msg00135.html >