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

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Message-ID: <20200106220040.GD11285@kernel.org>
Date:   Mon, 6 Jan 2020 19:00:40 -0300
From:   Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <arnaldo.melo@...il.com>
To:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <arnaldo.melo@...il.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
        Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
        Linux Trace Devel <linux-trace-devel@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        users@...ux.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] tools lib traceevent: How to do library versioning being
 in the Linux kernel source?

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