704262 - Automate generation of the source tarball for releases

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Camino Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Attachment: tarball WIP

Beginning (I think) in 1.9.2, the Core build system includes some support for generating a source tarball.  It's kind-of broken and doesn't do the right thing (nor what we want), but it (plus the persistent desire to have the darn thing automated for 8 Cm2.0 releases) led me to do some hacking to do something sane.

I have a WIP patch to our main and installer/ Makefiles that adds tarball: targets that do what we want (iirc; this patch is almost two years old) as part of the regular release build.

I still need to hack support into madhatter to run it for releases and figure out how to handle the upload, and I'm not sure when I'll get to that.  But I'd like to go ahead and attach the camino/ part of the patch here so that I don't forget, and maybe that will get me to push it through before 2.1.1.

Comment 1

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Note to self: it looks like http://hg.mozilla.org/users/alqahira_ardisson.org/madhatter/file/be1f0952ebd1/post-mozilla-rel.pl#l427 is where tinderbox calls "make -C camino/installer".

See also http://hg.mozilla.org/users/alqahira_ardisson.org/madhatter/rev/59f82fee7369