Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2025 17:35:00 +0100
From: Naomi Rennie-Waldock <naomi.renniewaldock@gmail.com>
To: ~alpine/devel@lists.alpinelinux.org, Camelia Lavender <cam@camelia.dev>
Subject: Re: Best way to handle git submodules in APKBUILDs?
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On 29 August 2025 17:26:04 BST, Camelia Lavender <cam@camelia=2Edev> wrote:
>Hi everyone!
>
>I'm relatively new to Alpine Linux packaging, but I'm trying to learn mor=
e about it by packaging a few pieces of software that aren't yet included i=
n Alpine repositories=2E I really hope I ask my question in the correct pla=
ce (I tried looking on the Wiki but didn't find any information about this)=
 :)
>
>I was wondering what the best way to package projects that rely on git su=
bmodules was=2E The problem with submodules is that they usually aren't inc=
luded in release tarballs=2E Also, since the "primary" source of the packag=
e is a tarball, it is not possible to use git to automatically pull submodu=
les from their upstream repositories, which, in the end, makes it (I guess)=
 necessary to add many different sources in the APKBUILD=2E
>
>What I've been thinking about doing is this:
>
>- For each submodule, I add a source in the APKBUILD, which points to the=
 source tarball of the specific commit that is checked out in the repositor=
y=2E
>- Then, I move the content of the tarball to the place where the content =
of the submodule should be=2E
>
>Is this a correct way to do what I'm trying to achieve, or is there a bet=
ter way to do so?
>
>Thanks in advance! :)
>--=20
>Sincerely,
>
>Camelia Lavender (she/they)
>PGP: 0xDBCC70EFBC360E97
>

That approach is what we've been doing for other packages where upstream d=
oesn't provide a full source archive=2E