On Jul 26, 2012, at 16:42, "Mikhail T." <mi+t...@aldan.algebra.com> wrote:
> Hello! > > I've created a port of bittorrent-libutp -- a piece of software, that has not > been officially "released" yet. It is in use by a number of other projects > (like net-p2p/transmission/). The not-yet-committed port can be found at: > > http://aldan.algebra.com/~mi/port-stuff/libutp.shar > > The vendor's code is hosted on GitHub, which allows downloading the entire > directory as a single tarball. However, to download sources as of particular > date/time, one has to use a hash of the version one cares for. > > For example, the current version's tag is d4685a3. If you attempt to download > the tar.gz from the https://github.com/bittorrent/libutp/downloads, you will > get a file named: bittorrent-libutp-d4685a3.tar.gz. > > Setting MASTER_SITES to https://github.com/bittorrent/libutp/tarball/d4685a3/ > works, but the download is a redirect... > > The port builds fine, but has two nasty problems: > > 1. The DISTVERSION being simply the first 7 characters of some hash will not > be > sequential -- the next release of the sources may have a hash, that will > sort below the current one, necessitating an ugly PORT_EPOCH bump. The > PORTVERSION ends up being "d4685.a3", which is not at all useful, but > forcing one's own PORTVERSION (something like 0.20120726) is not allowed... > 2. Fetching the code requires forceful removal of the -A option from > fetch(1)'s > arguments. > > Would anyone care to play with the port as posted and offer suggestions on > how to best resolve the two problems (other than hosting the tarball on my > own)? Check out ports-mgmt/portupgrade-devel for an example. It uses a known hash, but you can use tags as well. You'll need to override FETCH_ARGS as seen there too. > > Thanks! Yours, > > -mi Regards, Bryan Drewery > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
