Google Code as an upstream is gone
Christian Weisgerber
naddy at mips.inka.de
Thu Sep 29 15:05:08 UTC 2016
On 2016-09-14, Mathieu Arnold <mat at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> Google Code has been deprecated[1] since March 2015, and read-only since
> August 2015, giving time to software developers to move their
> development some place else. All the distribution files that still use
> solely googlecode.com as their source have been marked BROKEN today in
> r422140[2], as they are not fetchable.
>
> Most software have moved to some other place (mostly on github), all you
> have to do is figure out where and update your ports accordingly.
Or you can simply replace
${PROJECT}.googlecode.com/files/
with
https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-archive-downloads/v2/code.google.com/${PROJECT}/
which could have trivially been done in bsd.sites.mk.
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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy at mips.inka.de
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