Re: [RFC] tools lib traceevent: How to do library versioning being in the Linux kernel source?

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo]

Em Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 03:14:01PM -0500, Konstantin Ryabitsev escreveu:
> On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 04:47:11PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > Sure, regardless of where you do source code control you will need to
> > tag, create a tarball, signatures (which kup helps with) for kernel.org,
> > for instance I use:
> > 
> >   kup put perf-${VER}.tar.xz perf-${VER}.tar.sign /pub/linux/kernel/tools/perf/v${VER}/perf-${VER}.tar.xz
> 
> It's worth noting that you don't have to use kup if you don't want to -- 
> we have a mechanism to create tarball releases directly from tag 
> signatures. You just have to add a special note to the tag and the 
> backend does the rest automatically -- we have a handy script [^1] to 
> make it easier.
> 
> Greg KH has been using this process for a while now.
> 
> If you would like to switch to that instead of using kup directly, just 
> let me know.

Sure I wanna know, will read [^1], thanks for the pointer.

On a side note since this is a library/tool that is hosted in the
kernel, like perf, using that /pub/linux/kernel/tools/lib/ path seems
appropriate, i.e. it provides tarballs for things in the tools/
directory of the linux/kernel/ :-)

- Arnaldo
 
> -K
 
> [^1]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mricon/korg-helpers.git/tree/git-archive-signer