This is a manual revert of 28aa6c9, which is not very useful with the
new build tasks, completely brittle, and a flawed idea from the start. I
regret having written it.
The default behavior of the build task is to now apply the -snapshot
suffix dynamically rather than us manually hardcoding and managing it
within the source code itself. The `--release` flag will drop the
-snapshot suffix on a build, which should be used for any release
candidate.
The default behavior of the build task has also changed to create
rpm/deb packages as well. Since we've only confirmed that this works on
linux, you can override that behavior by passing `skip-os-packages`.
If you do not want to create any zip or tar.gz archives, you can pass
`--skip-archives`.
This is useful for when a pre-release build is completely tested and
could be released as-is if it weren't for the pre-release suffix and
commit hash. It will extract the archives in the target, replace the
version, sha, and build numbers with the current working copy's, and
then recreate the archives and shas.
The current dependency tree is now too deep to extract successfully on
windows, but adding readable-stream to the deepModules config in the
build process gets us back under the limit.
While working to reintroduce shrinkwrap into our workflow it became
apparent that we needed to be using npm3 but unfortunately node-gyp
is not compatible with iojs, and the iojs distros actually contain a
patched version. This means that you can only use iojs with the npm
it ships with.
When trying to find a solution for this issue, we contemplated not
using npm3, but that would mean that we can't use npm-shrinkwrap and
decided that since we are using babel anyway that switching back to
node was the best option.
The only code that must be updated to work in the new node 0.12 env
is lodash templates that use the template string syntax inside their
source (Since 0.12 does not support template strings).
This task will generate service definitions that will help run Kibana on
different platforms. At this time, the following service platforms are
supported: sysv init, upstart, launchd, systemd.
The files are generated by the `pleaserun` program and are written to
build/dist/services/[platform]/...
