Is there a way to use pants to create an environme...
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silly-waitress-33423
11/08/2024, 4:31 PMIs there a way to use pants to create an environment variable that can be used in subsequent calls? For example I am building a tarball that needs to point to a docker image which uses a bash script to come up with that value (like branch name + date). Thank you!
silly-waitress-33423
11/08/2024, 4:33 PMLike could I export it from a
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elegant-florist-94385
11/08/2024, 4:37 PMNot quite what you are looking for, but https://www.pantsbuild.org/stable/docs/using-pants/key-concepts/options#pantsbootstrap-file may be able to cover your use case.
Its a place to run arbitrary bash code that is sourced before each pants run.
So you could generate your environment variables there and then they will be available throughout your pants uses
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silly-waitress-33423
11/08/2024, 4:39 PMyeah! that could work. But I feel like there could be a more pant-sy way to pass the value that isn’t just a file
silly-waitress-33423
11/08/2024, 4:40 PMIn that doc page, they talk about
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11/08/2024, 4:49 PMThe goal is pretty similar to vcs_version so I’ll look into that too
silly-waitress-33423
11/08/2024, 5:06 PM@elegant-florist-94385 FYI, seeing this was the blog posted way to do this, was helpful reassurance this is the preferred approach https://www.pantsbuild.org/blog/2024/04/27/simple-versioning-with-git-tags --- even though it didn’t feel pant-sy
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