buildbot failure in MacPorts on buildports-elcapitan-x86_64

[Rainer Müller]

On 2016-06-27 17:43, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
> [so, macports downloads the ninja tarball as patch-configure.diff and patch-configure.py-boostrap-only.diff and tries to checksum them along with the ninja tarball download]

The problem here is that the master_sites at GitHub looks like a
directory, but will accept any filename at this location and download
the same file.

As the github port group controls both distfiles and master_sites,
couldn't it use tags to ensure only the main tarball is fetched from there?

https://guide.macports.org/#reference.phases.fetch

Rainer