a few of the slackbuilds I maintain have the sources on my dropbox public folder, however now that dropbox has dropped public folders I need to find an alternate place to host the sources. Anyone have suggestions on a good alternative?

Thanks

What about github?

That's not really optimized for hosting WGET-able tarballs.

As far as I can tell from reading this page, you can still use the Dropbox 'create a shared link'? (Haven't tried it myself)

maybe look into one of these
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SBo has over 1000 scripts which use a github tarball in the DOWNLOAD field to use with (typically) wget. It's true that some maintainers don't craft the url very well, resulting in downloaded tarballs with no name - just a release tag. However these urls are easily manipulated to download correctly named tarballs. For example, the default(as taken from the Releases page) downloads 0.6.0.tar.gz using wget.

The correct url for wget is actuallywhich downloads the expected hoorex-0.6.0.tar.gz tarball. As far as I know, any github url can be manipulated in this way for use with wget.

chris

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From my understanding of the initial post, these would be tarballs that he would upload for people to download. Probably source that doesn't have a homepage anymore. It wouldn't be a release tarball generated by github.

I'm not sure if github's policies permit that type of hosting.

oh yeah ... what about Sourceforge?
that is where mine is and it gets pulled for slackbuilds and works too

Yes, I was assuming that the OP wanted to store sources - source code files from which tarballs would be generated via a release (not store & distribute externally generated tarballs).

chris

@Daedra, I wonder if you are able to upload the source itself to github and then use github's tarball generation for the release?

But then I don't know enough about opensource licenses to say whether this would be ok or not...

The OP wants hosting for externally generated tarballs.

PM me. I have webhosting and I'll host them.

Hey everyone, after a few tests it seems that dropbox share linking as explained in the above post seems to be working. I only have around four files I need to have hosted. So as of now I'm all good. And Dugan thank you for offering your space I appreciate it.

And Dugan is right, the sources I have are github clones because there is no official release, so I needed a place to host the generated tarball for SBo purposes.

You should be able to host any tarballs (not only generated from source) at Bitbucket, you just need to create an empty repository for that and upload files to Downloads section. At least it was possible not too long ago, can't check at the moment if this feature is still there.

It's possible to craft a Github download for a specific release as a variant of the trick Chris Willing outlined above. I'm not saying you should do that, it's not pretty, but it's possible.

The URL would be
But that needs quite a lot of extra code in the SlackBuild, and the 40 character git commit is really ugly. You can shorten the first one in the url, but it has to be the full 40 chars in the tarball name and in the tar extract and the top level directory name. If you are thinking "noooooo!" then that's ok, your selfhosted snapshots are perfectly acceptable.

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