On Apr 28, 2010, at 7:04 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 4/28/10 6:18 PM, Dmitry Nezhevenko wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I want to package htop software that is currently unavailable in fink. >> Unfortunately original "htop" from sourceforge supports only linux however >> there is a htop-osx project at github (http://github.com/AndyA/htop-osx) >> that looks like a htop fork that works on osx. This fork contains no >> tarballs, so clone/checkout from VCS is the only way to get sources. >> >> So what is a correct way to package such software? I've created tarball >> myself and placed it to directory with other fink downloads. After playing >> a bit with auto* I was able to build it and get .deb. >> >> Also should I contribute htop package to fink? >> >> >> > > If you'd like to contribute it to Fink, we'd want > > 1) The tarball to be placed somewhere online. > 2) It needs to have a version associated with the vcs revision number > attached to it.
github can also generate tarballs of specific revisions on the fly. For example, the tarball of the most recent commit would be http://download.github.com/AndyA-htop-osx-34864f0.tar.gz. That's a neat feature of github. Daniel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
