Corey Richardson wrote:
Getting source tarballs from github is a nightmare. See http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2011-February/148676.html The debian tool doesn't help very much because one still needs revision garbage in the specfile. Is there any more recent ways to mitigate this? Perhaps we could "lobby" github to change their ways, at least partially?
I don't know if this will be of any use to you, but for tcplay there isn't a tagged release, so I use this script to create an suitable tarball from a github commit with a known hash, by doing a clone then archiving it locally. Certainly this doesn't solve the problem of not having a source URL.
#!/bin/sh # usage: tcplay-get-snapshot.sh <hash> git clone git://github.com/bwalex/tc-play ( cd tc-play && \ git archive --format=tar --prefix=tcplay-$1/ $1 \ ) | xz - >tcplay-$1.tar.xz Best regards, Eric -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
