[112573] trunk/dports/_resources/port1.0/group/github-1.0.tcl

[James Berry]

On Oct 26, 2013, at 2:01 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:

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> On Oct 26, 2013, at 14:09, jberry at macports.org wrote:
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>> Revision
>> 112573
>> Author
>> jberry at macports.org
>> Date
>> 2013-10-26 12:09:19 -0700 (Sat, 26 Oct 2013)
>> Log Message
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>> Allow the github portgroup to specify that tarballs should come from the archive area
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> In what way does this differ from the tags and downloads?

Hi Ryan,

Well… partly because I was confused, and partly because github is apparently changing it’s mind. It seems the downloads method is obsolete, and it also seems that the tarball urls are at least deprecated… see https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/issues/18797 also.

But despite the rumors of deprecation, the tarball/tags url would have worked for me but for a quirk of circumstances that made me believe it was no longer working at all. After your email I went back to check and apparently the tarball style url would work… but note that the checksum is different for some reason between the tarball url for a tag and the archive url for a “release”.

I’m not quite sure where to go from here. If we believe the brew guys, then we shouldn’t be pouring energy into the tarball urls, as they’re old news, and should be adopting the archive urls, which this change goes in the direction of. 

Given that you wrote that port group, I guess I’ll lean your way for advice.

James