Creating a source package

Generic source package

There are many linux distributions and we can't have packages for all of them, that's why the easiest way for us to distribute a w3af build is in "source code form". This will build a bz2 which holds all w3af's source code:

# Get the package generator
git clone git@github.com:andresriancho/w3af-packages.git
cd w3af-packages/generic/

# Generate the package
# python create_bz2.py <w3af-source-path> <version>
python create_bz2.py --w3af-path /home/user/workspace/w3af/ --release-version 1.5

This command will guide you through all the required steps required to have a w3af-<version>.tar.bz2 in the current directory.

The steps which are automated by this script are:

• Create the release branch
• Set release version
• Update the CHANGELOG file
• Create the source code documentation using Sphinx
• Create distributable package
• Unittest the package
• Upload the files to w3af.org
• Run final git flow commands

If in doubt, you can read the script source code or also read the common build steps in the Shipping a new release document.

After running this script please remember to follow these manual steps:

• Update the downloads page in w3af.org
• Community tasks related to a release