[Slackbuilds-users] ceph package git question

[Kyle Jerviss]

I'll check those out.

I think the main use will be Slackware VMs in ProxMox VE clusters, so I 
had intended to keep pace with the releases that ProxMox blesses for 
production use.  19.2.3 currently.

On 2026-05-13 18:31, Christoph Willing wrote:
> On 14/5/26 01:25, Kyle Jerviss wrote:
>> While I've got this on my mind...
>> 
>> The ceph source tree makes extensive use of git submodules.  So much 
>> so that I've never managed to track down all of them and assemble them 
>> into a buildable source tree.  git clone / git checkout handles it 
>> flawlessly.
> 
> Have a look at multimedia/obs-studio/get-obs-studio.sh which checks out 
> a git repo, pulls in the submodules and generates a tarball. It 
> specifies a particular git tag and uses that as the VERSION  for the 
> tarball.
> 
> If you just want the master branch (so no real version number), have a 
> look at system/incus-ui/get-incus-ui.sh which uses the date of last 
> commit and its abbreviated git hash to generate a usable version 
> string. This is based on something I saw in one of Pat's scripts and it 
> works very well. This one doesn't check out submodules but you easily 
> add that like the get-obs-studio.sh script does.
> 
> Once I have a full source tarball, I upload it to 
> SlackBuildsDirectLinks repo at Sourceforge which can then become the 
> DOWNLOAD url for your .info file.
> 
> chris
> 
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