Hi Anastasia,
On Mon, Oct 21, 2024 at 1:10 PM Anastasia Klimchuk <a...@chromium.org> wrote:
>
> > Since doc/dev_guide/release_process.rst doesn't cover the naming of
> > the tarball it might happen again.
> > It also doesn't mention that VERSION file and tarball name must be in sync.
>
> That's good points. What we now have is: the only "parameters" that
> humans provide are version name (in VERSION file), and tag (when tag
> is created). The tarball is packaged by the build system, and the file
> name generated by the pattern to include project name, and version
> name.
>
> But, I think it's worth adding a few lines into the document, the
> person doing the release can double-check the name of the file after
> it has been generated.
> I updated the patch, and the document now covers the tarball name
> pattern. Thank you for good idea.
>
> We started creating .xz from v1.4, it is now the default for build
> system, and I think offers better compression. The expected file name
> would be flashrom-v1.4.0.tar.xz, would that work for you?
>
Yes, that works for me.
Thanks for your help.

> On Mon, Oct 21, 2024 at 3:33 AM Patrick Rudolph
> <patrick.rudo...@9elements.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Anastasia,
> > Thanks for helping out here.
> >
> > I was hoping to find a flashrom-v1.4.0.tar.bz2, if that's not possible
> > that's also fine.
> > Since doc/dev_guide/release_process.rst doesn't cover the naming of
> > the tarball it might happen again.
> > It also doesn't mention that VERSION file and tarball name must be in sync.
> > I guess it's fine to have both tarballs available for download.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Patrick Rudolph
> >
> > On Sun, Oct 20, 2024 at 2:05 PM Anastasia Klimchuk <a...@chromium.org> 
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello Patrick,
> > >
> > > Thank you for explaining the issue.
> > > Looking through the history of tag names and version names, there have
> > > been variations with or without "v" prefix, probably that's how I got
> > > confused.
> > >
> > > I made a patch to settle the names to be with "v" prefix from now on:
> > > https://review.coreboot.org/c/flashrom/+/84811 , however this won't
> > > change what was in the VERSION file at the tag v1.4.0.
> > >
> > > I thought I could create an additional tarball manually. As of,
> > > checking out the repo by the tag v1.4.0, modifying VERSION file
> > > locally to match the tag name, and creating the tarball.
> > >
> > > Would this help in your situation?
> > > There would be two tarballs for 1.4.0 and v1.4.0 available in
> > > downloads, but maybe it's fine.
> > >
> > > On Sat, Oct 19, 2024 at 11:54 PM Patrick Rudolph via flashrom
> > > <flashrom@flashrom.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > > I cannot download v1.4 as it's not on 
> > > > https://download.flashrom.org/releases/.
> > > > There's only 1.4 available for download (missing the *v* prefix),
> > > > though that's not matching the tag.
> > > > Please fix to not break existing CIs relying on the correct tag.
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Patrick Rudolph
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> > >
> > > --
> > > Anastasia.
>
>
>
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> Anastasia.
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