Snapshots
Explore how to define and use the snapshot() function in Alpine Linux APKBUILDs to package projects that use git repositories without official releases. Learn to create reproducible tarballs from git commits, manage versioning with commit hashes and dates, and understand the workflow for integrating snapshots into Alpine's package system.
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Preface
Sometimes, we have to package a project that hasn’t made an official release yet and only makes its git repository available to us. In such cases, we need to define a snapshot() function since it’s not allowed to clone the repository in an APKBUILD to ensure reproducibility.
The snapshot() function
This function is responsible for cloning the sources of a project, packaging them into a tarball, and uploading them to Alpine Linux servers. This way, it’s guaranteed that the tarball won’t change and that it won’t be deleted ...