build: add make dist target (v2)

Let's stop screwing up releases by having a script do the work that Anthony's
fat fingers can't seem to get right.

Cc: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/make-release b/scripts/make-release
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..196c755f57
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/make-release
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+#!/bin/bash -e
+#
+# QEMU Release Script
+#
+# Copyright IBM, Corp. 2012
+#
+# Authors:
+#  Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
+#
+# This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPLv2 or later.
+# See the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
+
+src="$1"
+version="$2"
+destination=qemu-${version}
+
+git clone "${src}" ${destination}
+pushd ${destination}
+git checkout "v${version}"
+git submodule update --init
+rm -rf .git roms/*/.git
+popd
+tar cfj ${destination}.tar.bz2 ${destination}
+rm -rf ${destination}