[sheepdog] [ANNOUNCE] sheepdog stable release v0.7.4

[Hitoshi Mitake]

On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 5:04 PM, Liu Yuan <namei.unix at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 04:01:56PM +0800, Liu Yuan wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:34:13PM +0900, Hitoshi Mitake wrote:
>> > On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 9:45 PM, Bastian Scholz <nimrodxx at gmx.de> wrote:
>> > > Hi Hitoshi,
>> > >
>> > > Am 2013-10-21 10:03, schrieb Hitoshi Mitake:
>> > >
>> > >> Thanks a lot for reporting the problem. The cause of the error is that
>> > >> "make deb" assumes it is executed in a directory of the sheepdog git
>> > >> repository.
>> > >>
>> > >> If you need the deb package soon, could you try the below commands?
>> > >>
>> > >> $ git clone https://github.com/sheepdog/sheepdog.git
>> > >> $ cd sheepdog.git
>> > >> $ ./autogen.sh
>> > >> $ ./configure
>> > >> $ make deb
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Yes this works, too...
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >> Making deb package from non-repository source archive isn't supported
>> > >> now and would need some work. I'll work on it later, sorry.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > ... but as a workaround I removed "git log > CHANGELOG"
>> > > from Makefile.in and Makefile.am from v0.7.4 archive.
>> >
>> > Thanks, I'll consider the change for making packages in non-git repo
>> > tarballs. But the changelog is an important thing, I need a time for
>> > thinking.
>>
>> Maybe you can put change log as plain txt in the tarball not rely on the
>> git log command.
>>
>
> For a second thought, we can't do it. Probably we can add a command in the
> makefile to check if in the git repo, if not, don't execute 'git log > CHANGELOG'

OK, I'll do this change later.
# But I'm prioritizing other tasks now, sorry for delay...

Thanks,
Hitoshi