On 02/16/2011 10:55 AM, Stanislav Ochotnicky wrote: > On 02/16/2011 12:22 AM, BJ Dierkes wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I hope I am not the first to come across packaging issues for projects that >> use GitHub as their upstream source download. For those not familiar, >> GitHub dynamically generates downloads for all git 'tags'. So for example: >> >> $ git tag -a -m 'Tagging 1.0.0' 1.0.0 >> >> >> This would create a tag of '1.0.0' in git. On GitHub, this tag would be >> 'downloadable' via a dynamic app such as: >> >> https://github.com/derks/myapp/zipball/1.0.0 >> >> >> This is the upstream URL that a lot of GitHub users are providing rather >> than a direct download link. Unfortunately the above is not usable by RPM >> because rpmbuild expects the URL to end with the file. If I were to use the >> above in my spec, I would get an error saying something to the affect of >> 'unknown source file 1.0.0'. Additionally, the tarbal that is created looks >> like: >> >> myapp-1.0.0-XXXXXXX.tar.gz >> >> >> Where XXXXXXX is the last bit of the git commit hash id... which cause yet >> another pain in that... you need to update this commit revision every time >> you update the spec... and it just makes things a bit less fluid. I'm >> wondering how other people have resolved these issues for projects using >> GitHub as the upstream Source0 download provider. >> >> Finally, debian has a web app to resolve these issues at: >> >> http://githubredir.debian.net/ >> >> >> What would be the thoughts of using that to produce more sane/traditional >> tarbals of upstream GitHub source? >> > > What I am using in my spec files is something like this: > # git clone git://github.com/sonatype/sisu > # git archive --prefix="sonatype-sisu-1.4.3.2/" --format=tar \ > # sisu-1.4.3.2 > sisu-1.4.3.2.tar.gz > Source0: %{name}-%{version}.tar.gz > > Which basically takes the tag name and creates a nice tarball from it.
Although I should pipe it through gzip/bzip2 :-/ -- Stanislav Ochotnicky <sochotni...@redhat.com> Associate Software Engineer - Base Operating Systems Brno PGP: 7B087241 Red Hat Inc. http://cz.redhat.com
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