redports - should I rename the updated distfile (tarball)?

[Bernhard Fröhlich]

On Do., 27. Sep. 2012 13:55:51 CEST, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas at bristol.ac.uk> wrote:

> redports.org is good, thank you to whoever worked on it.

You're welcome.

> One question: the upstream for my port is non-existent,
> so rather then patch it, I'm updating the code itself.
> I then create a new tarball. It seems redports doesn't
> update the tarball every time I request a build.
> So it seems I have to update the version in Makefile
> each time and create a tarball with this new number.
> Is that so?

Redports uses a distfile cache so it only tries to download the distfile if it's not in the cache of that build machine yet. You could try to check bsd.ports.mk if there is a target that you can overwrite in your port where it does the distfile check.

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