[98388] trunk/dports/databases

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On Oct 5, 2012, at 11:59 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> You can remove the "name" line; github.setup sets it for you.
OK.

> You can remove the master_sites line; github.setup sets it for you.
OK.

>> use_bzip2           yes
> 
> Most projects on github use gz files not bz2 files. Certainly the automated tarballs github can generate for tags or revisions are gz files (or zip files). Though for projects that post their own downloads ("github.tarball_from downloads") they could be in any format the developer wanted to use. csvdb doesn't seem to have posted any downloads however.
OK.

> Yes you're right. It would be best if the developers would create a tag for 0.5.1 and any other versions they've released. Sorry; I hadn't realized that they hadn't done that already. You should ask them to do this. It's a normal part of a software release cycle.
Will check how to contact the author.

> Failing that, yes, you'd need to continue to specify a changeset. I think you can do it this way:
> 
> github.setup        darkrose csvdb afad8eca960af3b61b0a8ee3e1c3e0db4cc5c8f5
> version             0.5.1
Yeah, just a minute ago I figured that.

Thanks Ryan for all your advice. I guess now I should be able to rework the portfile nicely.