On Mar 21, 2018, at 08:26, Rainer Müller wrote: > On 2018-03-20 12:42, Rainer Müller wrote: >>> netpbm is the most complicated one, tweaking the arguments and commands in >>> order to first check out a sparse working copy and then to update only the >>> two directories we want. I do intend to switch netpbm over to downloading >>> from a GitHub mirror instead, which will leave only a few much simpler >>> cases to deal with, but I'll be sad to see the flexibility of fetching from >>> svn in MacPorts reduced. >> >> Thanks for pointing me to the netpbm port, I had not discovered it yet >> during testing. > > https://github.com/macports/macports-base/commit/a10c4dc37f73423195ebb50a921714a6cdd62728 > > With this commit, the whole fetch phase for netpbm would boil down to: > > fetch.type svn > svn.url http://svn.code.sf.net/p/netpbm/code/ > svn.subdirs advanced userguide > > checksums rmd160 ... \ > sha256 ... \ > size ...
Very nice, thanks.
