Problems with fetching from GitHub using GH_TAGNAME= hash

Olivier Duchateau duchateau.olivier at gmail.com
Sun Sep 18 07:29:31 UTC 2016


On Sat, 17 Sep 2016 22:40:27 -0700
Kevin Oberman <rkoberman at gmail.com> wrote:

> I an attempting to write a port for multimedia/mp4vs which has moved from
> Google Code to GitHub. I tried specifying GH_TAGNAME= 6fda22f, but instead
> of fetching mp4v2-Release-MP4v2-3.0.1.1.tar.gz, it tries to fetch
> mp4v2-Release-MP4v2-3.0.1.1_GH0.tar.gz. (Note added "_GH0".)
> 
> I have no idea where this is coming from an have no experience with porting
> where GitHub is the distfile repo.

Tarball is correct, despite "_GH0", I think it's GitHub, which adds this keyword on the fly, when we fetch tarball.

> 
> My Makefile contains:
> USE_GITHUB=     yes
> GH_ACCOUNT=     TechSmith
> GH_PROJECT=     mp4v2
> GH_TAGNAME=     6fda22f

Here, GH_PROJECT= is not necessary, because by default it re-uses PORTNAME (see Mk/bsd.sites.mk). 

> 
> Any idea what I need to change?
> 
> Thanks,
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