Does anyone have a simple how-to on how to modify an existing slackbuild from slackbuilds.org to check source out of a git repo instead of downloading a tarball? Slackbuild in question is 'scantailor'.

I could just change the 'info' file to point to a git snapshot URL, but I would have trouble with the version numbers and tarball checksums needing manual updating, no?

If it is hosted on gitorious or github, you should be able to point to a particular revision of the code rather than the last commit. In this case, the checksums won't be an issue.

Thanks. But I want to just be able to re-run the script to compile the latest commit.. is that possible?

If I am understanding correctly you want to the buildscript to download the latest git snapshot and build from that? If so I would just edit the script like so


rm -rf $PKG
mkdir -p $TMP $PKG $OUTPUT
cd $TMP
rm -rf $PRGNAM-$VERSION
tar xvf $CWD/$PRGNAM-$VERSION.tar.gz
cd $PRGNAM-$VERSION
chown -R root:root .
find . \
\( -perm 777 -o -perm 775 -o -perm 711 -o -perm 555 -o -perm 511 \) \
-exec chmod 755 {} \; -o \
\( -perm 666 -o -perm 664 -o -perm 600 -o -perm 444 -o -perm 440 -o -perm 400 \) \
-exec chmod 644 {} \;


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git

rm -rf $PKG
mkdir -p $TMP $PKG $OUTPUT
cd $TMP
rm -rf $PRGNAM-$VERSION
git clone git://scantailor.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/scantailor/scantailor
cd $PRGNAM
chown -R root:root .
find . \
\( -perm 777 -o -perm 775 -o -perm 711 -o -perm 555 -o -perm 511 \) \
-exec chmod 755 {} \; -o \
\( -perm 666 -o -perm 664 -o -perm 600 -o -perm 444 -o -perm 440 -o -perm 400 \) \
-exec chmod 644 {} \;


Also don't forget to change your program version to the git snapshot version, for example if you did the build today you could call it r8452. Cause that is the version the git checkout gives you. Of course if you did the build this way you could not submit it to SBO, but it would work for personal use.

look at this for some ideas. This down loads it configures it and builds it. also look at the gsb build scripts it down loads it builds it and installs it. Say thank you to alien bob

Thanks, Daedra, Drakeo and Eric. I will check those things out

EDIT: Pardon the pun!

I'm not sure what the policy of Slackbuilds.org is, but they might not accept taking an arbitrary source code point for the creation of a package. In this case, you would have to use a specific revision which is guaranteed to compile on Slackware (using the most recent snapshot won't give you such a guarantee).

Of course if the slackbuild is for yourself, there's no problem!

Little off the subject have you read Slackware copy write oh my I love it.