On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 08:51:29PM -0700, Eric Smith wrote:
Corey Richardson wrote:
>Getting source tarballs from github is a nightmare. See
>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2011-February/148676.html
>
>The debian tool doesn't help very much because one still needs revision
>garbage in the specfile. Is there any more recent ways to mitigate this?
>Perhaps we could "lobby" github to change their ways, at least partially?
I don't know if this will be of any use to you, but for tcplay there
isn't a tagged release, so I use this script to create an suitable
tarball from a github commit with a known hash, by doing a clone
then archiving it locally. Certainly this doesn't solve the problem
of not having a source URL.
#!/bin/sh
# usage: tcplay-get-snapshot.sh <hash>
git clone
git://github.com/bwalex/tc-play
( cd tc-play && \
git archive --format=tar --prefix=tcplay-$1/ $1 \
) | xz - >tcplay-$1.tar.xz
I took what you provided here an expanded it a little:
http://mcpierce.blogspot.com/2012/04/creating-source-tarball-from-github....
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