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Date:      Tue, 2 Oct 2012 23:30:49 -0400
From:      Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>
To:        Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Michael Gmelin <freebsd@grem.de>
Subject:   Re: How to check out ports
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On 2 October 2012 22:54, Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com> wrote:
> --On October 2, 2012 11:28:12 PM +0200 Michael Gmelin <freebsd@grem.de>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 02 Oct 2012 14:14:26 -0500
>> Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com> wrote:
>>
>>> --On October 2, 2012 2:44:46 PM -0400 Eitan Adler
>>> <lists@eitanadler.com> wrote:
>>> > On 2 October 2012 14:37, Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >> I obviously wasn't very clear.  I'm a port maintainer.  I need to
>>> >> update one of my ports.  I used to do this by checking out the
>>> >> port into a purpose-created directory in which I would use cvs to
>>> >> make changes and test. After everything checked out, I would
>>> >> submit the diff.
>>> >
>>> > We need to be better about announcing these changes as not to
>>> > frustrate maintainers. :)
>>> >
>>> >> Now cvs isn't working, so how, as a port maintainer, do I check
>>> >> out a single port so I can update it and submit it in a PR?
>>> >
>>> > You should do things the same way you did before, but instead you
>>> > should use svn to checkout out your port. Note that 'module names'
>>> > no longer work so you must use the full name:
>>> > e..g., svn checkout svn://svn.freebsd.org/ports/head/editors/nano
>>> >
>>> > It may help to keep a folder of "ports-I-maintain" with the ports
>>> > you maintain checked out. Before you update them do "svn update *"
>>> > and to generate a diff do "svn diff foldername"
>>> I got on the wiki and figured out how to check ou the port using svn,
>>> but now I'm stuck again.  This port has moved to github, and I don't
>>> have a clue how to download it in the Makefile.  There's no mention
>>> of github in /usr/ports/Mk, so I assume the method hasn't even been
>>> written yet. The source is here:
>>> <https://github.com/firnsy/barnyard2/>, but I don't see a tarball,
>>> and I don't know enough about ports to know if it's even possible to
>>> fetch it from github.
>>
>>
>> Hi Paul,
>>
>> What about using the ZIP
>>
>> https://github.com/firnsy/barnyard2/zipball/master
>>
>> (this will give you the current master branch in a ZIP file)
>>
>> or a tarball
>>
>> https://github.com/firnsy/barnyard2/tarball/master
>>
>> If you want to keep things more stable (since the master branch might
>> change frequently and break your build), limit yourself to a specific
>> version. Fortunately this software is using tags for versioning, so
>> it's easy to get zips from github, e.g.:
>>
>> https://github.com/firnsy/barnyard2/zipball/v2-1.10
>>
>> or if you prefer a tarball (which is usually nicer to have)
>>
>> https://github.com/firnsy/barnyard2/tarball/v2-1.10
>>
>> Github provides tarballs (and zipballs) for all branches and tags.
>>
>> See also:
>>
>> https://github.com/blog/12-tarball-downloads
>>
>> Hope that helps
>
>
> How do I handle this?
>
> firnsy-barnyard2-v2-1.10-0-g2f5d496.tar.gz
>
> Is the string at the end (g2f5d496) auto-generated?  If so, that's another
> problem.

Looks like the git hash:

use GH_ACCOUNT GH_PROJECT and  GH_COMMIT (see bsd.sites.mk for details)


-- 
Eitan Adler



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