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Date:      Mon, 11 Mar 2002 13:21:13 +0100
From:      "Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@corecode.ath.cx>
To:        Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: handling static filenames
Message-ID:  <20020311132113.5dd83daf.corecode@corecode.ath.cx>
In-Reply-To: <20020311225125.B96107@welearn.com.au>
References:  <20020311225125.B96107@welearn.com.au>

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On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 22:51:25 +1100 Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> wrote:

> I'm working on four ports (2 down, 2 to go) that have source archives
> which do not change name when they are upgraded. How do we deal with
> this? Keep a copy of foo.zip somewhere else, renamed to foo-1.23.zip
> and list it in the Makefile instead of or as well as the author's
> site? I could plonk them under people.freebsd.org but I don't know
> that it's the right way to handle the situation. Do we have any
> precedents or battle scars?

if you look at other ports which handle this:
they just do a

DISTNAME=	${PORTNAME}

or similar.


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