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Re: No more snapshots?


On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 09:36:45PM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:
>
>> > Snapshots aren't just built ad hoc, they use a particular script.
>> > That script is failing.  I just looked into it, and it's failing
>> > because the code which sets the version number of the snapshot to the
>> > current date is breaking because the format of the newly generated
>> > gas/configure file has changed slightly.
>> > 
>> > I fixed the script to accommodate the new format, and I'm building a
>> > snapshot now.
>> 
>> Is the script available somewhere, and any interest in putting it into
>> the repository?  I was guessing they used src-release, which is what I
>> use for releases, but I guess not.
>
>There is no ``they,'' there's just me.  The script is
>    ~ian/bin/binutils-snapshot
>which invokes the script
>    ~ian/bin/binutils-cvs-snapshot
>Both files are on sourceware.org aka sources.redhat.com.  The
>binutils-snapshot script is invoked by my crontab.
>
>The script does use src-release to make the actual tar ball, but it
>has to do a bit more than that also.
>
>I don't think the script really belongs in the binutils repository,
>because it's fairly sourceware specific.  But I can check it into the
>sourceware infra repository if that would be helpful.

I wonder if we need some kind of alternate directory on sourceware for
this kind of thing.  Like a /sourceware/project-admin (or /sourceware/padmin)
hierarchy.

cgf


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