Date: Tue, 02 May 2017 15:52:04 +0000 From: Ben Woods <woodsb02@gmail.com> To: Alexander Moisseev <moiseev@mezonplus.ru>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fetching binaries from GitHub Message-ID: <CAOc73CAMaEb8ndgaFB5t31K%2BUF29GBpru-qaBnYa3mpygutGBg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <c2191f1f-65e1-43b8-1901-b865b9839c1e@mezonplus.ru> References: <c2191f1f-65e1-43b8-1901-b865b9839c1e@mezonplus.ru>
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On Sun, 30 Apr 2017 at 10:33 pm, Alexander Moisseev via freebsd-ports < freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> wrote: > Is there a way to fetch binaries from GitHub instead of sources? > In particular I need to fetch BackupPC-4.1.2.tar.gz from > https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/releases/tag/4.1.2 > Hi Alexander, I believe downloading binaries from GitHub (such as that manually uploaded source tarball) is only possible only using the normal method for downloading source binaries in ports (by defining DISTNAME, EXTRACT_SUFX and MASTER_SITES). I don't believe there exists any shortcut in the ports framework for downloading files attached to tagged releases in GitHub. https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/makefile-distfiles.html Regards, Ben -- -- From: Benjamin Woods woodsb02@gmail.com
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