Archives arbitrary project files without binaries

[56KBs]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

We'd like to be able to publish the terraform module to our GitLab terraform registry for our Go project as part of GoReleaser. This requires archiving our terraform module directory and uploading it to GitLab.

Describe the solution you'd like

I'd like to be able to create an archive from arbitrary files within the repository, without requiring a binary to be bundled with the archive. For example:

archives:
  -
    id: terraform
    name_template: "{{ .ProjectName }}_{{ .Version }}_terraform"
    files:
      - terraform/*

Describe alternatives you've considered

I've considered using a custom publisher which contains a script to archive + push to the terraform registry however this would become quite cumbersome to use as it'd require copying the script across numerous repositories with the same code.

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[caarlos0]

this seems like a good idea...

what do you think the API should look like?

[56KBs]

this seems like a good idea...

what do you think the API should look like?

Is it possible to make it so that the existing archive configuration can allow for an empty builds: list so you end up with something like:

archives:
  -
    id: terraform
    builds: 
    name_template: "{{ .ProjectName }}_{{ .Version }}_terraform"
    files:
      - terraform/*
    allow_different_binary_count: true

I'm not sure if that'd cause any issues for existing users, but it seems like logical configuration to create an archive, without any builds within it.

[caarlos0]

it is not, when empty it defaults to all builds

it might work with builds: ['this id does not exist'], not sure

[56KBs]

Sadly it doesn't work as at least one artifact is required in order for the archives to be generated:

goreleaser/internal/pipe/archive/archive.go

Lines 85 to 108 in 8b0fa0c

	for i, archive := range ctx.Config.Archives {
	archive := archive
	filter := []artifact.Filter{artifact.Or(
	artifact.ByType(artifact.Binary),
	artifact.ByType(artifact.UniversalBinary),
	)}
	if len(archive.Builds) > 0 {
	filter = append(filter, artifact.ByIDs(archive.Builds...))
	}
	artifacts := ctx.Artifacts.Filter(artifact.And(filter...)).GroupByPlatform()
	if err := checkArtifacts(artifacts); err != nil && !archive.AllowDifferentBinaryCount {
	return fmt.Errorf("invalid archive: %d: %w", i, ErrArchiveDifferentBinaryCount)
	}
	for group, artifacts := range artifacts {
	log.Debugf("group %s has %d binaries", group, len(artifacts))
	artifacts := artifacts
	g.Go(func() error {
	if packageFormat(archive, artifacts[0].Goos) == "binary" {
	return skip(ctx, archive, artifacts)
	}
	return create(ctx, archive, artifacts)
	})
	}
	}

[caarlos0]

ah, so maybe we can add an option like meta: true, similar to what we have in nfpm

[caarlos0]

please see #3093

[56KBs]

please see #3093

I've checked out that branch and tested it - It looks like it does exactly what I want - Thanks!

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