How to make a Samba .distversion file

[Steve French]

I was able to generate a .distversion but there are two problems in
trying to do the following sequence (presumably would be common
scenario)

1) make dist from within the git tree to construct the .distversion
file and put it in a tar.xz file with the build tree
2) copy the tar.xz file to $(RPMDIR)/SOURCES
3) rpmbuild -ba samba.spec


The problem with that is
1) you don't know the exact name of the rpm file that "make dist" will
generate (we need to copy it to something well known that will match
what was put in the spec file, like "samba.tar.xz")
2) "make dist" looks like it builds hundreds of doc files (is it
supposed to do that?) not just .distversion before doing the tar
3) It builds a tar.gz instead of the normal tar.xz, presumably
rpmbuild expects tar.xz not tar.gz (at least that is what we have been
using and rpmbuild seems happy with the newer tar.xz)

On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 9:45 AM, Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-09-27 at 03:08 -0500, Steve French wrote:
>> If trying to get Samba to build with a version tag that includes the
>> git hash (trailing string), it looks like it can already do this if
>> you have a ".distversion" file in the root directory of the build
>> (since with rpmbuild you won't be in the git tree at that point, as
>> you have created a tar.gz) - but how is a valid .distversion file
>> generated.  "make dist" didn't seem to do what I expected (built a
>> lot
>> of documents, and an invalid .distversion).
>>
>> What is the format of .distversion and is there a script which
>> trivially generates it?
>
> It is controlled by the VERSION file and generated by make dist (waf
> dist) from ./wscript.
>
> Andrew Bartlett
>
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-- 
Thanks,

Steve