SSL Issues and PortGroup GitHub

[John Patrick]

hiya,

I'm having issues with mac ports using the github PortGroup.

I've raised two tickets over the past year and basically got told it
wasn't an issue with the port itself.

https://trac.macports.org/ticket/49539

https://trac.macports.org/ticket/51381

Basically via "port install X", I get and error "SSL certificate
problem: Couldn't understand the server certificate format".

If I manually perform the git clone task which is reported in the log
file, it works for me.

Does anyone know of any mac port that uses the github PortGroup and
works? All ports I've tried fail with the same SSL certificate
problem.

How can I help debug this issue and attempt a patch?

The ansible github project has release here
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/archive/v2.2.0.0-1.tar.gz as an
example. But the github.tarball_from option doesn't appear to have any
options to use that archive

Cheers,
John