hchauvin / rules_archiving

rules_archiving

rules_archiving is a Bazel rule for building tarballs, with more flexibility than pkg_tar

Example

In your WORKSPACE:

git_repository(
    name = "hchauvin_rules_archiving",
    remote = "https://github.com/hchauvin/rules_archiving.git",
    commit = "{HEAD}",
)

Then in a BUILD file:

load("@hchauvin_rules_archiving//:defs.bzl", "tar_archive")

tar_archive(
    name = "archive",
    srcs_rename = {
        "//:from.txt": "to.txt",
    },
    # ...
)

tar_archive

tar_archive(srcs_rename, srcs, extension, deps_append, deps_prefixed)

Rule to produce a tarball from a set of files and tarballs. It offers some flexibility concerning how the files are laid out. Among other things, it allows the renaming of files, which might be in some cases more suitable than symlinking, and can be used to avoid using multiple layers of pkg_tar to get to the desired layout.

Attributes
srcs_rename	label_keyed_string_dict; optional Dictionary of single files to strings. They are added to the tarball under the path given by the strings. The labels can be outside the package invoking the rule.
srcs	list of files; optional The files must be within the package invoking the rule, and the paths in the tarball are relative to the package.
extension	String; default ".tar" Extension of the resulting tarball. Can also be ".tar.gz" or ".tar.bz2", in which case the tarball is compressed accordingly.
deps_append	List of tarballs; optional Tarballs ("*.tar", "*.tar.gz", ...) to append to the output of this rule, with no modification.
deps_prefixed	Dictionary of tarballs to strings; optional Tarballs ("*.tar", "*.tar.gz", ...) to append to the output of this rule after each of their files is prefixed by the corresponding string in the dictionary.