Phanpy

Phanpy is a frontend for Mastodon. It is served as static files. The upstream git repository contains files that need to be built. Alternatively, releases are published as .tar.gz archives. I don't want to run npm to build phanpy but I still want to have the artifacts as a git repository so the content can be fed to unipi. Thus I have hacked together a script where I can import the tar release files into a git history.

To import a new release download the .tar.gz file and rename it to VERSION.tar.gz where VERSION is the release version. Then run ./import-tars.perl VERSION.tar.gz. This will add the files from the archive to a commit on the production branch with a tag VERSION. The commit will contain a SHA256 digest of the archive for sake of reproducibility.