I need help with git

[Michael Gmelin]

On Mon, 04 Feb 2013 10:21:35 -0600
Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists at tx.rr.com> wrote:

> I'm the maintainer for security/barnyard2.  The software recently
> changed so that all distros are pulled from github.  The developers
> made new commits, and now the port is broken, and I cannot figure out
> how to fix it. Here's the relevant code from the Makefile:
> PORTNAME=       barnyard2 PORTVERSION=    1.11 CATEGORIES=
> security MAINTAINER=     pauls at utdallas.edu
> COMMENT=        Interpreter for Snort unified2 binary output files
> LICENSE=        GPLv2
> USE_GITHUB=     yes
> GH_ACCOUNT=     firnsy
> GH_PROJECT=     ${PORTNAME}
> GH_TAGNAME=     master
> GH_COMMIT=      4dfdc80
> The master tagname apparently gets moved to the new commit every time
> the developers commit changes.  This is NOT what I want.  I want the
> port to stay at the release version until a new version is released.
> I've tried everything I can think of to get this port to pull the
> commit I want.  It does not work.  I've tried changing the tagname to
> v2-1.11, v2-${PORTVERSION}, stable, dev-next, etc., etc.  Nothing
> works. Here's the git site:
> <https://github.com/firnsy/barnyard2/commits/master> If I pull
> master, I get commit f57e464.  That's not what I want.  Why doesn't
> this thing pull the commit I'm telling it to pull? I'm so frustrated
> by this I'm about to drop this port.  I do NOT want to have to update
> the port every time the developers commit more code.  That is NOT how
> software should work. Is there anyone who can tell me how to fix this
> problem so the port will remain at the release version until the next
> version is released no matter how many commits the developers make?

Hi Paul,

Could you revisit what I write to you about this a couple of months ago?

I just tried changing GH_TAGNAME to v2-1.11 in Makefile and it just
worked fine (by the way, that's what I suggested back then, you should
never depend on "master", since it is a moving target)

USE_GITHUB=     yes
GH_ACCOUNT=     firnsy
GH_PROJECT=     ${PORTNAME}
GH_TAGNAME=     v2-1.11
GH_COMMIT=      4dfdc80

Are you sure there's nothing left in your build environment that stops
you from building the port successfully?

Cheers,

-- 
Michael Gmelin