Fetching binaries from GitHub

[Alexander Moisseev]

On 5/2/17 9:16 PM, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> Le 01/05/2017 à 08:43, Alexander Moisseev via freebsd-ports a écrit :
>> Is there a way to fetch binaries from GitHub instead of sources?
>> In particular I need to fetch BackupPC-4.1.2.tar.gz from
>> https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/releases/tag/4.1.2
>> _______________________________________________
>>
> You simply set:
> 
> PORTNAME=    BackupPC
> PORTVERSION=    4.1.2
> MASTER_SITES=
> https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/releases/tag/${PORTVERSION}
> 
> or set PORTNAME to a lowercase version and set DISTNAME=
> BackupPC-${PORTVERSION}
>
Many thanks, Mathieu! Works like a charm!


Just minor correction: a trailing slash is required in the MASTER_SITES URL to make portlint happy.

MASTER_SITES=	https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/releases/tag/${PORTVERSION}/