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| author | adamw <adamw@FreeBSD.org> | 2013-01-24 06:33:53 +0800 |
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| committer | adamw <adamw@FreeBSD.org> | 2013-01-24 06:33:53 +0800 |
| commit | 170a2d6c6ed23b7482923215fa6dfa010f81c439 (patch) | |
| tree | 6bdca624ff88126a84bb4e3f6ed43079edb3b6ff /Mk/bsd.sites.mk | |
| parent | aad465dd582f1ffa83944d05dac44d622f62a2a3 (diff) | |
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GitHub is such a nightmare for distfile fetching.
I added a comment showing an easy way to fetch a distfile from GitHub.
Using this method, you don't need to track the 7-digit commit at all.
In fact, the distfile name and its contents behave like a normal, sane
distfile would.
Diffstat (limited to 'Mk/bsd.sites.mk')
| -rw-r--r-- | Mk/bsd.sites.mk | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Mk/bsd.sites.mk b/Mk/bsd.sites.mk index 7bbcc25a45d0..9aca1ec0ef3f 100644 --- a/Mk/bsd.sites.mk +++ b/Mk/bsd.sites.mk @@ -530,6 +530,13 @@ GH_PROJECT?= ${PORTNAME} GH_TAGNAME?= ${DISTVERSION} .endif .endif +# +# Another way to simplify distfile fetching from GitHub, eliminating the need +# to track 7-digit commits for each distfile, is to use the following: +# +# MASTER_SITES= https://github.com/GH_ACCOUNT/${PORTNAME}/archive/${DISTVERSION}.tar.gz?dummy=/ +# FETCH_ARGS= -prR +# .if !defined(IGNORE_MASTER_SITE_GNOME) MASTER_SITE_GNOME+= \ |