[systemd-devel] no tar balls at release time

[Kay Sievers]

We currently considering to stop creating release tar balls.

For build systems which still require them, they can be created
locally from the upstream git repository with:
  git archive --format=tar --prefix=systemd-$(VERSION)/ $(VERSION) | \
    xz > systemd-$(VERSION).tar.xz

These tar balls will not include the "500k of shell scripts" added by
autotools. These files need to be added to the extracted tarball by
running ./autogen.sh.

These tar balls will also not include any generated content like
fonts, man, html pages. This is intentional.

Please test these setups locally if that model will work in your
setups, and what would possibly need to be fixed in the git tree to
make that easier for you.

The Fedora build setup was happy without any adjustments to take the
git created tar ball instead of the autotools created one.

Thanks,
Kay