Fetching tarball of a commit

[Daniel Ericsson]

On 11 maj 2012, at 21:55, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> On May 11, 2012, at 14:47, Daniel Ericsson wrote:
> 
>> On 11 maj 2012, at 17:16, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> 
>>> On May 11, 2012, at 10:03, Craig Treleaven wrote:
>>> 
>>> 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.
>> 
>> I do this in some local Portfiles, checking it now it's seems to get redirected, but it works.
>> 
>> PortSystem          1.0
>> PortGroup           github 1.0
>> 
>> checksums           rmd160  38cf5c7de055057df1fc081d261e198d45127f3d \
>>                   sha256  c866214e6c54731a8cf6a89b7c85b3c631db22db1228db63403ccf7aabca38cc
>> 
>> github.setup MythTV mythtv 9ccfac11f31d8d05d48092efcbec8015c68f6cc1
> 
> Yes, there's always a redirect involved. That's fine.
> 
> I just object to listing a git commit hash as if it were a version number, and would like a better solution than that.

Does resetting the version number after github.setup work? Like so:

github.setup MythTV mythtv 9ccfac11f31d8d05d48092efcbec8015c68f6cc1
version 0.25-84

Or does this break stuff? This is like what I did in the py-biggles port, when the github project name didn't match the portname.

-- Daniel