Fetch Question

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jan 26, 2008, at 23:14, George A. Dowding wrote:

> I am trying to create a Portfile for kohana. It distribution  
> mechanism is a web form that builds a bundle at download time.
>
> How best to tell mac ports to download the distribution by using  
> this url?
> http://kohanaphp.com/download.html?group=standard&languages%5Ben_US% 
> 5D=en_US&format=zip

Nothing comes to mind, unfortunately. I can't think of a way to  
coerce the MacPorts fetch code into downloading from that kind of a  
URL. You might have to write your own fetch procedure, and that could  
be messy.

Could you try instead to encourage the developers of kohana to offer  
a more normal download location? They can still drive it through a  
script if they like; they just get the parameters from $_SERVER 
['PATH_INFO'] instead of from $_GET. For example:

download.php/standard/en_US/Kohana_v2.0_2007-11-20.zip