Unable to fetch sources from GitLab instance

[Jason Liu]

By the way, here is my Portfile for librist, in case anyone wants to try
and see whether fetching from VideoLAN's GitLab instance works for them.

-- 
Jason Liu


On Fri, Jul 28, 2023 at 11:47 PM Jason Liu <jasonliu at umich.edu> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I suppose I should be directing this question to René Bertin, since he's
> the maintainer of the VLC port, but I'm sending this to the entire dev
> mailing list, in case anyone else has any ideas.
>
> I'm trying to create a Portfile for librist, which is one of the projects
> that's being hosted on https://code.videolan.org. My question to René
> (and everyone else) is: Have you had any luck trying to fetch sources from
> code.videolan.org? When I try to use the gitlab PortGroup, MacPorts
> doesn't seem to find a tarball at the URL that is generated by the
> PortGroup. However, I'm able to download the file using a web browser, and
> even curl downloads the file just fine:
>
> /usr/bin/curl -LROJk
> https://code.videolan.org/rist/librist/-/archive/v0.2.7/librist-v0.2.7.tar.bz2
>
> Does anyone have any explanation for the behavior that I'm seeing?
>
> --
> Jason Liu
>
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