Github Checksums ..

[Brandon Allbery]

Yes, that's what I meant. You want to point to archives, because they don't
change; tarballs will be regenerated on the fly by github, so they do not
have fixed checksums and you would have to either make "fake" accesses to
them every so often so github thinks they are still in use and won't remove
and regenerate them, or update the checksums every week or so for the
latest generated tarball. Neither one is worth the effort.

On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 8:50 PM, Abdulrahman Alshammari <a.turqi at hotmail.com
> wrote:

> This is what is actually said;
> "Since the github portgroup uses "tarball" downloads, not "archive"
> downloads, this also means the checksums will change. "
>
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> Note: It might appear my name as "Ziad Ali" instaed of "Abdulrahman
> Alshammari".
> This is an issue that I am trying to fix.
>
> On Apr 15, 2016, at 8:39 PM, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 11:24 PM, Abdulrahman Alshammari <
> a.turqi at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I was asked to change some parts of portfile. I did that except the
>> checksums. I was told that the checksums will be changed because the github
>> port. Can someone let me know how I can change it since using the same way
>> will always generate the same checksums? If there any further changed,
>> please let me know.
>
>
> That sounds a bit confused. My guess is they asked you to use a release
> tarball, because github generates non-release tarballs on the fly and
> removes them if they haven't been accessed in a while, so the checksums are
> not stable. (Release tarballs do have stable checksums.)
>
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