fetch.user and fetch.password ?

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Mon Apr 30 05:27:13 PDT 2012


On 2012-4-30 22:02 , Christophe Prud'homme wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> it seems that fetch.user and fetch.password are not used in portfetch
> but I actually need them
> to retrieve a repository
> 
> here is the piece of code in the Portfile
> 
> fetch.type          svn
> fetch.user          gmsh
> fetch.password      gmsh
> svn.url             https://geuz.org/svn/gmsh/trunk
> svn.revision        11960
> svn.method          export
> 
> am I doing something wrong or these fetch parameters are not used at all ?

They are used with the standard fetch type, but not with svn. I guess it
would make sense for the VCS fetch types to support those options too.

In the meantime, you should still be able to use svn.args to add
whatever you need.

- Josh


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