Step though fetch and others

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

On Feb 5, 2009, at 6:25 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> So I have local_repo/mail/dbmail/Portfile:
>> name                dbmail
>> version             2.2.11
>> homepage            http://www.dbmail.org
>> master_sites        http://www.dbmail.org/download/2.2/
>
> A construct we like to use in these situations is:
>
> set branch           [join [lrange [split ${version} .] 0 1] .]
> master_sites        http://www.dbmail.org/download/${branch}
>
> That way you don't have to update master_sites when the version  
> changes.
>
>> checksums           md5     d535587973d73b85469d92a35f52133b \
>>                    sha1    7b9c19de7ca14d849e8388377b8aa941f3f3538b \
>>                    rmd160  e8a506b850d1610b66059b685b7a2318ce5e37a9
>>
>> According to what I've read it should be fetching from:
>> ${master_sites}${name}-${version}.tar.gz
>
> In the end, yes.
>
> More specifically, it fetches from ${master_sites}${distfiles}  
> (assuming master_sites and distfiles are both only a single item,  
> which they are in your case)
>
> ${distfiles} defaults to ${distname}${extract.suffix}.
> ${distname} defaults to ${name}-${version}
> ${extract.suffix} defaults to .tar.gz
>
>
>> Well, there is definitely a file at that address. But I'm getting a  
>> html page download that's failing checksum besides not being what I  
>> want.
>>
>> How do I step through the fetch process?
>>
>> Or print to console the vars fetch is using?
>
> You can enable debug mode with the -d switch:
>
> cd path/to/dbmail
> sudo port clean
> sudo port -d fetch

Which is what I was doing and debug does not print the protocol or url.

Maybe it should?

> You can also get the full URLs MacPorts wants to download from by  
> using
>
> port distfiles

This does what I was looking for and has me puzzled.

If I copy and paste the first url from the (port distfiles) list into  
my browser I get the file I want downloaded.

If I md5 the file the checksums match.

If I do:
file dbmail-2.2.11.tar.gz
dbmail-2.2.11.tar.gz: gzip compressed data, from Unix, last modified:  
Mon Feb  2 06:26:11 2009

But if I do:
file /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/dbmail/dbmail-2.2.11.tar.gz
/opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/dbmail/dbmail-2.2.11.tar.gz: HTML  
document text

I'm at a lose without stepping through fetch. And I am not familiar  
with tcl but probably will be someday:)


//Brad