Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 15:03:54 +0000 (UTC) From: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Google Code as an upstream is gone Message-ID: <slrnnuqbaq.2tlc.naddy@lorvorc.mips.inka.de> References: <2047d7fd-1849-6008-5be1-5fb3d1aa0661@FreeBSD.org>
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On 2016-09-14, Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> Google Code has been deprecated[1] since March 2015, and read-only since
> August 2015, giving time to software developers to move their
> development some place else. All the distribution files that still use
> solely googlecode.com as their source have been marked BROKEN today in
> r422140[2], as they are not fetchable.
>
> Most software have moved to some other place (mostly on github), all you
> have to do is figure out where and update your ports accordingly.
Or you can simply replace
${PROJECT}.googlecode.com/files/
with
https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-archive-downloads/v2/code.google.com/${PROJECT}/
which could have trivially been done in bsd.sites.mk.
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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de
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