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

[Jeremy Hansen]

On Tue, Feb 19, 2019, 6:05 AM Noryungi <noryungi at gmail.com wrote:

> 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.
>

I have an example with the picard-plugins package I maintain. They don't
provide any releases, so I link to a certain commit on github and that is
used as the source. Check out the .info and .SlackBuild for an example.

https://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.2/multimedia/picard-plugins/


Jeremy
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