tarball link when using python group

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Sun Jul 9 21:29:42 UTC 2017


On 2017-7-10 07:08 , db wrote:
> I made a vanilla port for textfsm with pypi2port, but want to use the tarball from github.
> 
> curl will download https://codeload.github.com/google/textfsm/tar.gz/0.3.2 without the proper suffix.
> 
> How can I fix it? I tried fetch.type, but it seems for another use case.

Solution 1: Download from pypi instead. 
<https://pypi.python.org/pypi/textfsm>

Solution 2: Use the github portgroup, which takes care of the 
idiosyncrasies of fetching from github. It's fine to use at the same 
time as the python portgroup, see e.g. py-alabaster.

- Josh


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