[macports-base] 14/18: fetch: Remove svn.method option

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Wed Mar 21 19:52:01 UTC 2018


On Mar 21, 2018, at 08:26, Rainer Müller wrote:

> On 2018-03-20 12:42, Rainer Müller wrote:
>>> netpbm is the most complicated one, tweaking the arguments and commands in order to first check out a sparse working copy and then to update only the two directories we want. I do intend to switch netpbm over to downloading from a GitHub mirror instead, which will leave only a few much simpler cases to deal with, but I'll be sad to see the flexibility of fetching from svn in MacPorts reduced.
>> 
>> Thanks for pointing me to the netpbm port, I had not discovered it yet
>> during testing.
> 
> https://github.com/macports/macports-base/commit/a10c4dc37f73423195ebb50a921714a6cdd62728
> 
> With this commit, the whole fetch phase for netpbm would boil down to:
> 
> fetch.type          svn
> svn.url             http://svn.code.sf.net/p/netpbm/code/
> svn.subdirs         advanced userguide
> 
> checksums           rmd160  ... \
>                    sha256  ... \
>                    size    ...

Very nice, thanks.




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