[NTG-context] Re: install-modules script and git URLs

Firstly, apologies for any confusion: Apple Mail has decided it knows best and has doubled-up the URLs containing { placeholders }. Since the URLs contain placeholders then they can't be used directly anyway but you knew that. :-) Secondly, on re-reading, it comes over as instructions for Hraban when it was meant to be a suggestion to Pablo to try the alternate form of the Github repository URL first.

On 19 Dec 2023, at 21:47, Bruce Horrocks wrote:

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On 19 Dec 2023, at 17:48, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:

Am 19.12.23 um 18:29 schrieb Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context:

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Hi Hraban and Taco, the install-modules script doesn’t allow .tar.gz as compression format to install modules. .tar.gz seems to be the compression format offered for modules that are uploaded using a git URL. Hraban explained in August that the server could be configured to get .zip compression for modules in git checkout. Sorry, I know that you are both very busy, but could it be this issue fixed?

I looked at the code and don’t understand enough of it… (it’s old Perl CGI code). There are more changes that I’d like to do (e.g. add more licenses – needs db access).

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Using git to upload module versions is way more easy than uploading .zip files.

I agree.

The Github API for retrieving a 'zipball' is documented here https://docs.github.com/en/rest/repos/contents?apiVersion=2022-11-28#downloa...

The explanation of the allowed options is a little terse but, basically, a URL of the form

https://api.github.com/repos/{OWNER}/{REPO}/zipballhttps://api.github.com/repos/%7BOWNER%7D/%7BREPO%7D/zipball

should be sufficient to result in a zipped download of the repository named {REPO} owned by {OWNER}.

You can test manually from a Unix/Linux command line using the command:

$ curl -L https://api.github.com/repos/{OWNER}/{REPO}/zipballhttps://api.github.com/repos/%7BOWNER%7D/%7BREPO%7D/zipball > results.zip

If the existing Perl CGI uses a curl command like this then it may simply be enough for Pablo to specify a suitably formatted Github URL.

Note that the -L is necessary because the Github API generates a temporary, time-limited URL and redirects to it by returning a 302 response code.

Regards, — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK

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