gitlab tags

[Jonathan Stickel]

On 3/9/17 10:11 , Joshua Root wrote:
> On 2017-3-10 02:42 , Jonathan Stickel 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.
>>
>> Any help is appreciated.
>
> I don't know about Gitlab specifically, but if they really don't have
> any other way to download the source, you can use the ?dummy= trick:
>
> <https://trac.macports.org/wiki/PortfileRecipes#fetchwithgetparams>
>
> - Josh

Thanks, appending "&dummy=" worked in this case.