Create a Standalone-Package

Calling the script

You start the script with ./release_app.rb. There are five commandline-options:

• --noi18n or -i, do not pack translations and documentation
• --nogpg or -g, do not create a signature with GnuPG
• --libkdeedu or -l, pack libkdeedu (needed for some applications)
• --widgets or -w, pack the kdeedu-widgets (like the clock)
• --help or -h, issue a help

Which app do you want to pack?

To make this script as easy as possible this script will show you a list of apps. Simply choose the one you want to pack from the list and click on "Ok".

Which version should the tarball have?

The script will result in a tar.bz2-file. In this example, it will be named kalzium-3.5-preview1.tar.bar.

The work starts...

Now you can sit back and watch the script doing its work. It will inform you about what it is currently doing.

- - - Start packing kalzium - - -
- - - - Checking out libkdeedu - - - -
- - - Checking out kalzium - - - -
- - Checking out kde-commons/admin - -

- - - - - - l10n - - - - - -

The documentation is fetched...

Only available docs are fetched. You see a "foo done" for ever working language. All languages which are not listed here failed. In 99.99% this means that there are no translations for that language

The translations are packed...

For every language which has a translation of the app you are packing you will get a status-message. This will look like this:

GnuPG-Signing

It is always good to sign you package. If you didn't start the script with --nogpg you will be asked for you GnuPG-password. This will create a .sig-file.

- - - Signing with your GnuPG-key - - -

Finish...

At the end of the script will will get some information you might need if you announce you new package. This looks similar to this:

=====================================================
Congratulations :) kalzium 3.5-preview1 tarball generated.

MD5 checksum: 3655d813c146cbdf9a1c79e0f6f52994 kalzium-3-5-preview1.tar.bz2
The user can verify this package with

gpg --verify kalzium-3.5-preview1.tar.bz2.sig kalzium-3.5-preview1.tar.bz2

Last update: 2008-01-11