Re: [aur-general] Packaging releases from git.kernel.org

On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 10:05 AM, Lukas Fleischer <archlinux@cryptocrack.de> wrote:

By the way, is there any reason for not using Git tags to specify the snapshot tarball? Something along the lines of

source=("http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/trace-cmd.git/snapshot/trace-cmd-v${pkgver}.tar.gz")

hah! See, that's *exactly* what I was trying to figure out and it wasn't clear at all, the 'v' right before the version is the key thanks. I was digging around all the cgit and the git.kernel.org stuff and it's just not obvious like it is on github.com for releases. Thanks! :-) (hence, this would be a great tip on the wiki IMHO - some stuff is just not obvious, and my hack is "wrong" per se) Off to update the package... -te