request for port create command, to build a portfile from a URL

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Mar 9, 2018, at 13:22, Enrico Maria Crisostomo wrote:

> I pushed to GitHub a skeleton of the idea:
> 
>    https://github.com/emcrisostomo/macports-utils
> 
> I've moved what I'm using to a new script to see what the end result looked like. If you want to try it, just grab the release tarball here (if you don't have the Autotools installed):
> 
>    ./configure && make install
> 
> otherwise just clone the repo, bootstrap it and use it:
> 
>    ./autogen.sh && ./configure && make install
> 
> An example:
> 
>    $ port-gen --url https://github.com/emcrisostomo/semver-utils/releases/download/1.1.3/semver-utils-1.1.3.tar.gz
> 
> outputs:
> 
>    # -*- coding: utf-8; mode: tcl; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- vim:fenc=utf-8:ft=tcl:et:sw=4:ts=4:sts=4
> 
>    PortSystem          1.0
>    PortGroup           github 1.0
> 
>    github.setup        emcrisostomo semver-utils 1.1.3
>    github.tarball_from releases
> 
>    categories          changeme
>    platforms           darwin
>    license             GPL-3
> 
>    maintainers         obfuscated-maintainer-mail \
>                        openmaintainer
>    description         Add a short port description here.
>    long_description    Add a long port description here.
> 
>    homepage            https://github.com/emcrisostomo/semver-utils
> 
>    checksums           md5    e65be62dc9e25af8aa467aa99cde1e00 \
>                        rmd160 71cf46420315edd8019d6974062033480b5c79a0 \
>                        sha256 888a688feabc82ce59abc754c63fd2babff5747f0463fb1a3f8fffaf50d5d982 \
>                        size   514429
> 
>    livecheck.url       ${github.homepage}/releases/latest

The github portgroup takes care of setting the homepage and livecheck for you.