[Slackbuilds-users] How to build a slackpackage for a software without a version number ?

Petar Petrov slackalaxy at gmail.com
Mon Oct 14 08:14:57 UTC 2019


On 13/10/2019, J. Scheurich <mufti11 at web.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need to add the OpenSubdiv library to slackbuild, but the software do
> not have a
> file with a version number 8-(
>
> http://graphics.pixar.com/opensubdiv/docs/getting_started.html
>
> points to a git repository and
>
> https://github.com/PixarAnimationStudios/OpenSubdiv/archive/master.zip
>
> which has no version number 8-(
>
> If Pixar needs to patch this file, the archive checksum will be changed
> and a
> slackbuild port would become invalid 8-(
>
> How to solve the problem ?
>
> so long
> MUFTI
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Hi Mufti,

there are plenty of slackbuilds that deal with GitHub sources.
Versioning can be, indeed, a bit tricky, so I wrote a post in my
humble blog about how I did things for bpp-core:

https://slackalaxy.com/2017/05/01/github-download-links/

These are all examples:
https://slackbuilds.org/result/?search=bpp&sv=14.2

-petar


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