flynn-cli-dist

A suite of tools for building flynn-cli, generating binary diffs, and distributing them for updates.

Prerequisites

install godep to manage dependencies:

$ go get github.com/kr/godep

url for the flynn-cli directory server (e.g. https://flynn-cli.herokuapp.com)

url for the S3 bucket for distributing full flynn-cli binaries (e.g. https://flynn-cli-dist.s3.amazonaws.com/)

url for the S3 bucket for distributing patches (e.g. https://flynn-cli-patch.s3.amazonaws.com/)

aws iam credentials

the name of the binary to build (e.g. "flynn")

the name of the git branch to build from (e.g. "master")

postgres:// url

which tcp port to listen on

the name of the heroku app to generate diffs with

To release a new version of flynn-cli:

make a gpg-signed git tag of the form vYYYYMMDD or vYYYYMMDD.N
```
$ git tag -sam "added a new feature" vYYYYMMDD
```

push the release branch to that tag on github

$ git co release
$ git reset --hard vYYYYMMDD
$ git push origin release

run flynn-cli-dist build to build for all platforms and generate diffs

## Export environment variables for target build ##
$ flynn-cli-dist build
  ...

This is a fork of Heroku's hkdist.