I need help with git

[Kubilay Kocak]

On 6/02/2013 8:59 PM, Shane Ambler wrote:
> On 06/02/2013 00:27, Wesley Shields wrote:
> 
>> I don't know if we have a way to express this in the ports framework but
>> you absolutely can grab a tarball of a repo at any specific commit on
>> github even if it is not tagged.
>>
>> This is the URL to grab ironbee/libhtp at
>> 234fd5bab1225e483ea263a5a15faebed0bd61b9:
>>
>> https://github.com/ironbee/libhtp/archive/234fd5bab1225e483ea263a5a15faebed0bd61b9.tar.gz
>>
>>
> 
> /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.sites.mk contains --
> 
> # GitHub files can also be obtained, without the commit hashes, by doing:
> #
> # MASTER_SITES=
> http://github.com/accountname/${PORTNAME}/archive/${PORTVERSION}.tar.gz?dummy=/
> 
> # FETCH_ARGS=    -Fpr
> 
> Where PORTVERSION would be expected to equal the tag name. I think that
> would mean not defining USE_GITHUB.
> 
> I haven't tested this yet - but it looks like PORTVERSION can be swapped
> for the long commit hash.
> 
> So you could probably use --
> 
> MASTER_SITES=
> http://github.com/${GH_ACCOUNT}/${GH_PROJECT}/archive/${GH_COMMIT}.tar.gz?dummy=/
> 
> DISTFILES=${GH_PROJECT}-${GH_COMMIT}.tar.gz
> FETCH_ARGS= -Fpr
> GH_ACCOUNT= ironbee
> GH_PROJECT= libhtp
> GH_COMMIT= 234fd5bab1225e483ea263a5a15faebed0bd61b9
> 
> Without USE_GITHUB you may need to add WRKSRC=
> ${WRKDIR}/${GH_ACCOUNT}-${GH_COMMIT}
> 
> That could be the workaround for getting an untagged commit.

I wonder how trivial it would be to evolve bsd.github.mk to do something
like the following (or similar)

- If GH_TAGNAME & GH_COMMIT set = do as we normally do
- If GH_COMMIT & empty(GH_TAGNAME) = get specific commit tarball, set WRKSRC

--
Ta,

Koobs