Add a release workflow. (#993) * Add a release workflow. * clean up release note generator - do not include google specific maintainer instructions - remove "snip" marks which were needed when you had to copy paste from terminal to github page.
Bazel rules for building tar, zip, deb, and rpm for packages.
For the latest version, see Releases (with WORKSPACE setup) / Documentation
Use rules-pkg-discuss@googlegroups.com for discussion.
CI: 
As of Bazel 4.x, Bazel uses this rule set for packaging its distribution. Bazel still contains a limited version of pkg_tar but its feature set is frozen. Any new capabilities will be added here.
Sample, but see releases for the current release.
load("@bazel_tools//tools/build_defs/repo:http.bzl", "http_archive") http_archive( name = "rules_pkg", urls = [ "https://mirror.bazel.build/github.com/bazelbuild/rules_pkg/releases/download/0.9.1/rules_pkg-0.9.1.tar.gz", "https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_pkg/releases/download/0.9.1/rules_pkg-0.9.1.tar.gz", ], sha256 = "8f9ee2dc10c1ae514ee599a8b42ed99fa262b757058f65ad3c384289ff70c4b8", ) load("@rules_pkg//:deps.bzl", "rules_pkg_dependencies") rules_pkg_dependencies()
To use pkg_rpm(), you must provide a copy of rpmbuild. You can use the system installed rpmbuild with this stanza.
load("@rules_pkg//toolchains/rpm:rpmbuild_configure.bzl", "find_system_rpmbuild") find_system_rpmbuild( name = "rules_pkg_rpmbuild", verbose = False, )
bazel_dep(name = "rules_pkg", version = "0.0.10")
To use pkg_rpm(), you must provide a copy of rpmbuild. You can use the system installed rpmbuild with this stanza.
find_rpm = use_extension("//toolchains/rpm:rpmbuild_configure.bzl", "find_system_rpmbuild_bzlmod") use_repo(find_rpm, "rules_pkg_rpmbuild") register_toolchains("@rules_pkg_rpmbuild//:all")
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