package subcommand

[lengau]

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

While adding a new packaging format to an app or investigating a packaging specific bug, it's often necessary to run the packaging step several times to configure it correctly. This often doesn't require rebuilding the executable, but rather just edits to the .goreleaser.yaml file and re-packaging. .

Describe the solution you'd like

A package subcommand would make this far easier. The following options would be nice for me:

• --nobuild - don't build, just use the existing binary in the dist directory. (Or default to --nobuild and have a --build to re-run the build.)
• A way to select which packaging/archive format to use, and potentially which platform. Perhaps a combination of packaging type (e.g. nfpms or snapcrafts), ids, and other specifics (such as GOOS, GOARCH and maybe formats)?

Describe alternatives you've considered

My current solution is as follows:

1. Comment out all builds/releases in .goreleaser.yaml except the one I want to use.
2. Set any goos and goarch values to be strictly the platform I want to package for.
3. Start making changes
4. Test those changes with goreleaser release --snapshot --rm-dist

A package subcommand could replace that with, for example, goreleaser package --nobuild --single-platform snapcrafts to package the already-built software as a snap for my current platform.

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Additional context

The most relevant other issue I found was #3219. I think a package subcommand would solve that use case as well.

[caarlos0]

this is a good idea, although not sure how simple to do.

in any case, if done, will be in pro only, as the oss version does not have what's required for it to work.