Compiling get_flash_videos from git

[ron999]

Hi
This seems to be the location for the git:- https://github.com/monsieurvideo/get-flash-videos

I've compiled it like this:-

git clone git://github.com/monsieurvideo/get-flash-videos.git
cd get-flash-videos
make
sudo checkinstall --pakdir "$HOME/Desktop" --pkgname get-flash-videos \
--pkgversion "1.2.5-git-$(date +%Y%m%d)" --backup=no --deldoc=yes --default

This gives me a deb package like this:- get-flash-videos_1.2.5-git-20110225-1_i386.deb

The version in git is 1.2.5.
Is there a way that I can automatically find the version number so that this part of the command:-

--pkgversion "1.2.5-git-$(date +%Y%m%d)"

is future-proof.

Something like this:-

--pkgversion "$VERSION-git-$(date +%Y%m%d)"

How can I find $VERSION automatically?

[MadCow108]

usually you use git describe for that.

it will print the latest tag and the number of commits since then + the latest sha (prepended with g). Its better than using a date.
you can parse it as you wish e.g. with

git describe | awk -F- '{print $3}' | sed -e "s/^g//" | xargs git show --pretty="format:%cd"
Fri Feb 25 16:27:13 2011 -0600

for the master branch it gives:
v1.22-117-g27e30c5
meaning there have been 117 commits since the last annotated tag.

interestingly the 1.23 is not annotated and 1.24 is on another branch, 1.24_0X are also not annotated. This should actually be done by the author.

so you might want to use git describe --tag to use the latest tag instead of the lastest annotated tag.
v1.24_02-32-g27e30c5

[ron999]

Hi, thanks for your reply MadCow.
How do I use git describe --tag?
How do I incorporate it in my checkinstall command?
I agree, commits would be much better than the date.

[TeoBigusGeekus]

Try this:

sudo checkinstall --pakdir "$HOME/Desktop" --pkgname get-flash-videos \
--pkgversion "$(git describe | awk -F- '{print $3}' | sed -e "s/^g//" | xargs git show --pretty="format:%cd"
Fri Feb 25 16:27:13 2011 -0600)-git-$(date +%Y%m%d)" --backup=no --deldoc=yes --default

[ron999]

Yes TeoBigus, the command works OK.
This is the result:-

get-flash-videos_1.2.5-git-20110226-1_i386.deb

But what does all this mean here?
sudo checkinstall --pakdir "$HOME/Desktop" --pkgname get-flash-videos \
--pkgversion "$(git describe | awk -F- '{print $3}' | sed -e "s/^g//" | xargs git show --pretty="format:%cd"
Fri Feb 25 16:27:13 2011 -0600)-git-$(date +%Y%m%d)" --backup=no --deldoc=yes --default

Will I need to change that date each time that I compile?
What is the significance of Fri Feb 25 16:27:13 2011 -0600 ?

[ron999]

No the command isn't working Teo.
I was mistaken.
The result is get-flash-videos_0-1_i386.deb

[ron999]

Hi
I've thought again about this program.
It's not in the Karmic repo.
So it's not important to me which 'version' is shown in Synaptic, it won't be over-written.

I've modified the process like this:-

git clone git://github.com/monsieurvideo/get-flash-videos.git && \
cd get-flash-videos && make && \
sudo checkinstall --pakdir "$HOME/Desktop" --pkgname get-flash-videos \
	--pkgversion "`date +%Y%m%d`-git" --backup=no --deldoc=yes --default

This is the result:- get-flash-videos_20110303-git-1_i386.deb

When I need to know which version is installed I can enter a command like this:-

ron@ubuntu:~$ get_flash_videos -v
get_flash_videos version 1.25 (http://code.google.com/p/get-flash-videos/)

[andrew.46]

I have not fully tested this one (I am on my other distro at the moment) but perhaps something like this would be useful:

--pkgversion "$(grep '  $VERSION' get_flash_videos | cut -d '"' -f 2)\
             -git$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)"

Could do with a bit more tinkering though I suspect....

[kle]

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[davidesamulson]

I wannt to now that how How do I use git describe --tag?Or any other option which i can use in its place.