What is wrong with my download location

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Feb 11, 2010, at 19:01, Scott Haneda wrote:

> And I also note that there is "projects" and "files" in that name as well, which makes me completely unable to understand how "sourceforge:assp" works?


> Internally, I am not at all understanding what is going on.  I have had this as a suggestion:
> master_sites        sourceforge:"assp/${name}%20Installation/${name}%20${version}/"
> Which works, but I certainly do not like it.
> 
> And I just tried:
> master_sites        sourceforge:assp
> Of course, it works, but I swear I tried it before, with correct case, and it was not working.
> 
> When I go to http://assp.sourceforge.net/ and click on downloads, and am taken to:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/assp/files/
> 
> I see the main link is a download with this resource:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/assp/files/ASSP%20Installation/ASSP%201.6.5.4/ASSP_1.6.5.4-Install.zip/download
> 
> How in the heck does MacPorts go from sourceforge:assp to that url?  What is the real and full url MacPorts is going to expand that to.  You can ignore the FQDN part of it (since there are so many mirrors), I am looking to know the URI that is expanded.
> 
> Is this a convention, to put :projectname in the master_sites, and if so, how would I know, or determine this on my own, with nothing more than the urls to the project.

Yes, that is the convention, for master_sites definitions like sourceforge, gnu, googlecode, etc. See:

http://guide.macports.org/#reference.phases.fetch