[openib-general] creating releases for the libraries you own

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

Quoting r. Roland Dreier <rdreier at cisco.com>:
> Subject: Re: creating releases for the libraries you own
> 
>  > Right, but consider that longterm we will need to add checksums
>  > and possibly sign packages, etc. Doing all this manually
>  > through wiki just to publish an RC will be a hassle, and error prone.
> 
> Yes, I agree.  That's why I said that just having ~user/html or
> whatever isn't very interesting.  Ideally we would have a really
> automatic way of publishing releases.  However as a short-term hack we
> could convert the downloads page to a wiki page.

Well, with ~user/html I can easily cook up a perl script to generate a MD5
checksums or sign stuff and just stick them in the same directory as original files.

And while that's not as pretty, I think that'll do short-term.

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