Cached distfile with the same name

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jun 27, 2020, at 11:32, Herby G wrote:

> I have a situation where a particular port is using a distfile of the same name from version to version.
> 
> So there's currently an older version of the port's distfile cached in the MacPorts mirrors.
> 
> Unfortunately, trying to update the port is failing since the distfile is first fetched from the MacPorts mirror.
> 
> Since the old and new version of the distfile have the exact same name, checksums won't compute for the new version of the Portfile.
> 
> How is this normally handled?

https://trac.macports.org/wiki/PortfileRecipes#unversioned-distfiles