[drupal-devel] Re: Help?

[Chris Johnson]

Jim Riggs wrote:

> * The Drupal packaging script (that automatically creates the .tar.gz  
> of every project) runs every 6 (or 12?) hours.  It crawls the entire  
> contributions repository.  For every project with files in HEAD, it  
> creates a tarball that is labeled as the "cvs" version (foo- 
> cvs.tar.gz).  For every project that has a Drupal branch (i.e.  
> DRUPAL-4-x), it creates a tarball for each version  (foo-4.5.0.tar.gz).  
> My understanding is that /all/ projects are  packaged every time, so the 
> tarball always contains the latest  files;  HOWEVER, the project page 
> displays the date the version was  first encountered as the "latest 
> release" date.  So if I created a  branch on January 1 and committed new 
> files yesterday, the date will  still show Jan 1, but the tarball will 
> include my changes from  yesterday.  I don't need to do any branching or 
> tagging again.  I  only need to branch once.


Thanks for the complete description.  It helped clarify a couple things for 
me.  If it is not precisely correct, hopefully someone will provide corrections.

One small correction I know about:  it appears, at least emperically, that the 
packaging script only looks at some small subset of valid Drupa branches. 
That is, it appears to be building packages only for HEAD, DRUPAL-4-5 and 
DRUPAL-4-6 right now.

I branched the ezmlm module for DRUPAL-4-4 only just recently (Allie and I 
updated it to 4.5 and 4.6, but it had been updated but NOT branched for 4.4 by 
someone else, so before committing our changes, I branched it for 4.4).  But 
the 4.4 package has never been built.

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Chris Johnson