gitlab tags

[Mojca Miklavec]

On 9 March 2017 at 16:42, Jonathan Stickel <jjstickel at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to make a port for git-latexdiff. It is hosted on gitlab:
>
> https://gitlab.com/git-latexdiff/git-latexdiff
>
> The project has "tags" which look similar to github's tags (and releases). I
> am having trouble specifying the "master_sites" and "distname" variables for
> the port in order to download the appropriately tagged tarball. The download
> link, e.g.,
>
> https://gitlab.com/git-latexdiff/git-latexdiff/repository/archive.tar.gz?ref=v1.1.4
>
> automatically morphs into a download file of
>
> git-latexdiff-v1.1.4-dc84273afc2e366d6c4f98a07052e651c7d297dd.tar.gz
>
> I've used the github portgroup to mange this with github-hosted ports, but
> there is no "gitlab" portgroup.

I would say that we should create a PortGroup for GitLab.

Mojca