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Date:      Thu, 13 Jul 2023 02:26:38 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>
To:        Nuno Teixeira <eduardo@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Felix Palmen <zirias@freebsd.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-main@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: git: 16bde072b16d - main - bsd.sites.mk: Support tag names with USE_GITLAB
Message-ID:  <ZK9g3iQ15BcL1OT7@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAFDf7UJnC2843njwmLGJ1HKxy6g4ukfAeDSxr1qKZVvkPM8GBA@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <202307121858.36CIw4aK074024@gitrepo.freebsd.org> <CAFDf7UJnC2843njwmLGJ1HKxy6g4ukfAeDSxr1qKZVvkPM8GBA@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 11:15:13PM +0100, Nuno Teixeira wrote:
> Isn't possible to have same result with USE_GITHUB?
> 
> like we have when github static tarballs are available and we use
> MASTER_SITES instead of USE_GITHUB:
> 
> MASTER_SITES=
> https://github.com/juzzlin/Heimer/releases/download/${DISTVERSION}/
> SHA256 (heimer-4.2.0.tar.gz) = xxx (without *_GH0*)

I believe this is what Gentoo is doing: it saves GitHub-generated
tarballs under "sane" names which often clash with static tarballs
provided by the project itself.  This screws up mirroring and is
just confusing, so let's keep using existing _GH0-scheme for those
if we may, please.

./danfe



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