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Subject: Re: [RFC] New ports idea: github / gitorious / bitbucket direct
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> > * due to autogeneration, you're quite likely to get a http-redirect,
>  Does fetch support redirects?

Yes. But for good reasons, Mk/bsd.ports.mk contains the line

FETCH_ARGS?=    -AFpr

Note the -A. Of course, it's no problem to make an exception for github, but
at least, one should be aware of this.

> > * filenames like 2011.07.25 are not too suitable for a distfile.
>  DIST_SUBIDR=${PORTNAME} is solution for this.

yes. And a github framework probably should set this by default...

Best,
Klaus