macports localinstall github tries to download from macports

[macports at parvis.nl]

> On 2020-04-27, at 21:55, Ken Cunningham <ken.cunningham.webuse at gmail.com> wrote:
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> it takes some work sometimes to make the github PortGroup obey your bidding:
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> 
> you know that you want this file:
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> https://github.com/snabb/downtimed/archive/version-1.0.tar.gz
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> 
> you would have thought that setting:
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> github.tarball_from archive
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> 
> would work to get you that file, but it does not, because the github portgroup generates this url instead:
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> https://github.com/snabb/downtimed/archive/1.0/downtimed-1.0.tar.gz
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> 
> and there is nothing at that URL. Ergo your 404 error.
> 
> This can be very frustrating. Some package mangers just let you put in the whole URL you want -- that is nice :> -- but it bypasses a feature MacPorts wants to have, which is distfile mirroring, which is nice when it works.
> 
> You can see the URL the github PG generates by using
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> port distfiles
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> and then just monkey around with options until it matches a place where there is a file.
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> In practical terms for right now, if you remove this line:
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> github.tarball_from archive
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> 
> 
> and you should be OK
> 
> port distfiles will tell you.
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> I often paste the URL I want into the portfile as a comment, and then keep monkeying around with the GitHub PG settings until I get something.
> 
> Anybody who tells you it is very easy and you're missing something obvious just forgets what it was like before they knew how to manhandle the github PG :>
> 
> Ken


thanks.

left out github.tarball_from
now i get
https://github.com/snabb/downtimed/tarball/1.0/downtimed-1.0.tar.gz <https://github.com/snabb/downtimed/tarball/1.0/downtimed-1.0.tar.gz>
but i need
https://github.com/snabb/downtimed/archive/version-1.0.tar.gz <https://github.com/snabb/downtimed/archive/version-1.0.tar.gz>

is there a way to use a template for the download? or is it trial and error?

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