Fetching tarball of a commit

[Ryan Schmidt]

On May 11, 2012, at 10:03, Craig Treleaven wrote:

> So, I'm back working on a port of MythTV; thanks to Michael Dickens for finding and fixing a flaw in the QT4-mac port.  I really want to use a recent version of the Fixes/0.25 branch as some bugs affecting the Mac were fixed recently.  A Myth dev tells me that GitHub deliver the identical zipball for a particular commit (say 9ccfac11f3...) via:
> 
> https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/zipball/9ccfac11f31d8d05d48092efcbec8015c68f6cc1
> 
> In Safari, this downloads "MythTV-mythtv-v0.25-84-g9ccfac1.zip".
> 
> I've tried several combinations of master_sites, distfiles, and distname with little success.  For example ...
> 
> set sha1_long       9ccfac11f31d8d05d48092efcbec8015c68f6cc1
> master_sites        https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/zipball/
> distfiles           $sha1_long
> extract.suffix      {}
> checksums           rmd160  08598846aa0cf909a75c67c76183a6d044eff90a \
>                    sha256 e7d681ad0d1e22d87b11779665966627354b71864c4269f1d789cce9649ec120
> 
> This fetches a file (named "9ccfac11f31d8d05d48092efcbec8015c68f6cc1", 79.5 MB) which passes the checksum but fails to unzip, complaining "has more than one entry--rest ignored".  I'm still a neophyte with MacPorts, TCL and lots of other stuff!  ;)
> 
> Any suggestions on how to get this to work?  Might be useful in other cases, as well.

We have a github portgroup which you should use.

We should improve the github portgroup so that it can fetch tarballs from arbitrary revisions. Currently it only fetches tarballs for tags.