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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] go-module.eclass: deprecate EGO_SUM and call ego instead of go
From:       Michał_Górny <mgorny () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2022-02-26 21:27:40
Message-ID: 00292de8268d3057d5442bc92b8ae0c0e2629448.camel () gentoo ! org
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On Sat, 2022-02-26 at 14:05 -0600, William Hubbs wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 26, 2022 at 01:45:24PM -0500, Ionen Wolkens wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 26, 2022 at 11:55:10AM -0600, William Hubbs wrote:
> > > If I change the instructions as you suggest to re-package upstream's
> > > tarball the name wouldn't need the -vendor suffix since the tarball would be a
> > > fork, but I'm not asking people to fork and repackage upstream's tarballs, just
> > > the vendor folder. Fortunately, there is no reason to fork since it is very
> > > easy to package the vendor folder with Go's tools.
> > 
> > Doing:
> >     tar ... project-1.0-vendor.tar.xz project-1.0/vendor
> > 
> > would only package the "vendor" directory and not the whole
> > project directory. Then when auto-unpacked by src_unpack, the
> > vendor directory is added under project-1.0/
> > 
> > So this isn't repacking upstream's or a fork.
> 
> Ok, I get what you are saying, but normally the directory you have the
> package in doesn't have a version number if you are working from a git
> repository, so I don't know how to get around this:
> 
> cd path/to/project
> # note, no version number in "project"
> go mod vendor
> cd ..
> tar -acf project/vendor project-1.0-vendor.tar.xz
> 
> This will put everything in the tarball under "project/" instead of
> "project-1.0/".
> 
> Does tar have an option to change that top level path that I don't know
> about?
> 

If you're working from a git repo, you should use 'git archive' and it
has --prefix= option that does what you need.

git archive --prefix=project-1.0/ vendor |
  xz -9 > project-1.0-vendor.tar.xz

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny


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