[Slackbuilds-users] git clone instead of downloading a source tarball

Willy Sudiarto Raharjo willysr at slackbuilds.org
Tue Feb 19 13:09:04 UTC 2019


> One additional question, then: if a tarball is required, is it
> acceptable to download a git repo as a zip file and use that in a
> SlackBuild?
> 
> Many projects hosted on GitHub offer pre-packaged "releases", but these
> are almost always zip files, and not ".tar.gz" files.

Sure, but don't use latest master commits archive as it always change
use specific commits or released tarballs, either in tar.gz, tar.bz2 or
zip files.


-- 
Willy Sudiarto Raharjo

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