[41513] trunk/dports/devel

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Nov 5, 2008, at 16:55, nox wrote:

> Le 5 nov. 08 à 23:26, Ryan Schmidt a écrit :
>
>> On Nov 5, 2008, at 02:27, devans at macports.org wrote:
>>
>>> +master_sites	${homepage}attachment/wiki/WikiStart/
>>> +distfiles       ${distname}${extract.suffix}?format=raw
>>
>> Cool trick!
>>
>> Hmm, except for the fact that that's the filename that ends up on  
>> the user's system, and on the mirror; see:
>>
>> http://distfiles.macports.org/gtkimageview/
>>
>> See attached patch for a better solution.
>>
>> <gtkimageview.diff>
>
> By the way, shouldn't it be better to create a new variable  
> `fetchfiles` which would
> replace the default mechanism offered with master_sites distname  
> extract.suffix and all?
> Tricky ports like this one would just have to write the url of the  
> file(s) to fetch in `fetchfiles`.

I'm not seeing how "fetchfiles" would work, in all the variations  
that we have to support (one or multiple distfiles, on one or  
multiple master sites).

I'm comfortable with the workaround presented in my patch. It's used  
by several ports already. We could document it in the Guide and in  
that way make it an official recommendation for this situation (when  
downloading through a server-side script instead of just downloading  
from a server directory).