cad/gerbv can be helped

[Tim Rice]

On 12/27/19 13:32, Ash Gokhale wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 11:54 AM Ash Gokhale <ashfixit at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I can't locate the original distfile- is there a way to get it?
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 11:47 AM Li-Wen Hsu <lwhsu at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>
>>> https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/commit/15fb0f93157b9f316271505a26de261cca8c8f97#diff-e950be35b121285d100ab42864142525
>>>
>>> We did update the hashes while updating to 2.7.0.
>>> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/507372 is bumping
>>> PORTREVISION and it doesn't related to distfile.  The issue here is
>>> the distfile (gerbv-2.7.0.tar.gz) has been rerolled by the upstream
>>> and the file name has not been changed.  We need to check what's
>>> different in the old and new distfiles.
>>>
>>> Please refer
>>> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/dads-rerolling-distfiles.html
>>>
>>> Li-Wen
>>>
>>> On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 10:18 PM Ash Gokhale <ashfixit at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Seems that upstream didn't change anything.  This shows that we bumped
>>> the version/ without fixing the hashes. So this unfetchable is self
>>> inflicted. This broke the port, and likely never built for anyone.
>>>>   Also did cad/gerbv  just get deleted in current after the expiration
>>> timer,  that's unfortunate - can we retcon that decision?
>>>> https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/tree/branches/2019Q2/cad/gerbv
>>>>
>>> https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/commit/15fb0f93157b9f316271505a26de261cca8c8f97
>>>> (deprecation)
>>>>
>>> https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/commit/d227ab5330fa7292ac9b6d7c49d230c48ba91889
>>>> On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 7:28 AM Li-Wen Hsu <lwhsu at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, Dec 25, 2019 at 10:31 PM Ash Gokhale <ashfixit at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>>> I got it to build on 12.1  by dropping the broken,deprecated from the
>>>>>> Makefile  and  updating distinfo to the following.
>>>>>> Seems that the upstream made changes without bumping the rev number.
>>>>>> SHA256 (gerbv-2.7.0.tar.gz) =
>>>>>> c5ee808c4230ce6be3ad10ab63c547098386d43022704de25ddb9378e62053b4
>>>>>> SIZE (gerbv-2.7.0.tar.gz) = 569140
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>> & make install
>>>>>> ===>  Installing for gerbv-2.7.0_1
>>>>>> ===>  Checking if gerbv is already installed
>>>>>> ===>   Registering installation for gerbv-2.7.0_1
>>>>>> Installing gerbv-2.7.0_1...
>>>>>> I'm willing to be the maintainer as well.
>>>>> Thanks for checking this and willing to be the maintainer. Before we
>>>>> updating the distinfo, could you also help us to check why and what
>>>>> have been changed in the new distfile?
>>>>>
>>>>> Best,
>>>>> Li-Wen
> Where does this leave us - with no source for the original distfile to
> compare.  It would sad to abandon this port.

How about checking the git log and doing a git diff.
git clone git://git.geda-project.org/gerbv.git

Looks like README-cvs.txt was pulled and README-git.txt added.

-- 
Tim Rice