GOOGLE_CODE has gone away?

[Pavel Timofeev]

2017-01-19 19:17 GMT+03:00 Pavel Timofeev <timp87 at gmail.com>:
> Hello, all.
> I've found a port  (http://www.freshports.org/net-mgmt/flow-tools-ng/)
> which is marked as BROKEN.
> The last commit says "GOOGLE_CODE has gone away.".
>
> But at least this particular port is still available in a new place:
> https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-archive-downloads/v2/code.google.com/flow-tools/flow-tools-0.68.5.1.tar.bz2
>
> I suppose other ports which depends on Google code can be resurrected too.
> Is Mk/bsd.sites.mk right place to fix it?
>
> What if add to the following
>
> MASTER_SITE_GOOGLE_CODE+= \
>         http://${PROJECTHOST}.googlecode.com/files/
> .endif
>
> something like
>
> https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-archive-downloads/v2/code.google.com/${PROJECTHOST}/
>
> What do you think?


One correction: https can also be replaced by http in that link
I tried several other GOOGLE_CODE-dependent ports and it works.
For example http://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-archive-downloads/v2/code.google.com/vboxgtk/vboxgtk-0.8.2.tar.gz