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From: Kurt Jaeger <lists@opsec.eu>
To: Athanasios Douitsis <aduitsis@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: github repo to port connection
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Hi!

> Totally new to ports maintenance, please bear.
> 
> Is there a way for a port to be semi-automatically updated from a github
> repo as its source?

Yes, see

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.html#makefile-distfiles

and the USE_GITHUB example.

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