Github problems

[Michael Gmelin]

On 8 Nov 2012, at 22:05, Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists at tx.rr.com> wrote:

> I'm working on a new port, and I'm having problems with Github.
> 
> The url to the tarball is:
> <https://github.com/Snorby/snorby/archive/master.tar.gz>
> 
> This is what I have in the Makefile:
> 
> # $FreeBSD$
> 
> PORTNAME=       snorby
> PORTVERSION=    2.5.3
> CATEGORIES=     security
> 
> MAINTAINER=     pauls at utdallas.edu
> COMMENT=        Frontend for snort
> 
> USE_GITHUB=     yes
> GH_ACCOUNT=     Snorby
> GH_PROJECT=     ${PORTNAME}
> GH_TAGNAME=     master
> #GH_COMMIT=     master
> 
> When I run make makesum I get this:
> 
> => snorby-2.5.3.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/.
> => Attempting to fetch https://nodeload.github.com/Snorby/snorby/tarball/master?dummy=/snorby-2.5.3.tar.gz
> 
> Obviously that fails.  I looked through /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.sites.mk, but I don't see any way to override the part after dummy=.  I tried making GH_COMMIT= master, but that did nothing.
> 
> What's the correct solution to this?  There doesn't seem to be anything in the Porters Handbook about github.
> 
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Try searching the mailing list archives, this topic has been discussed in quite detail a few weeks ago.