[aur-general] creating versioned packages from github

[Massimiliano Torromeo]

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Alper Kanat <tunix at raptiye.org> wrote:
> Hey There,

Hi

> I want to package django-grappelli (version: 2.3.5) from github. I know
> that usually we clone the repository and therefore have the latest commit
> of the project for VCS PKGBUILD's. However in this case, I want to package
> the latest stable version. So I wrote;
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> # Maintainer: Alper KANAT <alperkanat at raptiye.org>
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> pkgname=django-grappelli
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> pkgver=2.3.5
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> pkgrel=1
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> pkgdesc="A jazzy skin for the Django Admin-Interface"
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> url="https://github.com/sehmaschine/django-grappelli"
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> arch=('any')
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> license=('GPL2')
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> makedepends=("git" "python2" "python2-distribute")

git is not a make dependency, since you are downloading a tarball
python2 should be moved to depends

> conflicts=()
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> provides=()

remove all the empty variables from the PKGBUILD

> source=(https://github.com/sehmaschine/django-grappelli/tarball/2.3.5)

make it source=($pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz::https://github.com/sehmaschine/$pkgname/tarball/$pkgver)

> md5sums=('36291a468ea10d50b33d782413cd436c')
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> build() {
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>    cd ${srcdir}
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> }
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> For test purposes, I tried to build this PKGBUILD. The tarball is
> downloaded with the name 2.3.5 and successfully extracted into src/ folder
> but with a commit id (which makes it kind of random):
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> $ ll src/
> toplam 4
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 tunix users   52 Oca 20 10:59 2.3.5 ->
> /home/tunix/packages/alps/django-grappelli-git/2.3.5
> drwxr-xr-x 4 tunix users 4096 Eki 11 11:07
> sehmaschine-django-grappelli-ea9441b
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> So unless I do some bash magic like cd
> $srcdir/sehmaschine-django-grappelli-*, I won't be able to continue to
> build this package. What I wonder is if there are convenient ways to:
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>   - Download a tarball with a predefined name (in short: rename the output
>   tarball)
>   - Extract to predefined folder
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> that we can specify in PKGBUILD? I read the man pages of PKGBUILD and
> makepkg and couldn't find such an information.

Downloading with a different name is documented here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PKGBUILD#source
I don't know of any option to extract to specific folder.

Cheers.