magic syntax for most recent git from sourceforge? [solved]

[Gary Aitken]

On 04/18/18 00:06, Le Baron d’Merde wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 09:48:53PM -0600, Gary Aitken wrote:
>> On 04/16/18 13:17, Gary Aitken wrote:
>>> Can anyone give me the magic formula for fetching the most recent
>>> git distro from sourceforge for a ports Makefile?
>>> 
>>> The porter's handbook talks about how to fetch git repos from
>>> github but not about how to get them from sourceforge.
>>> 
>>> I've tried a few things but can't get the right combo of
>>> MASTER_SITES and PORTNAME, DISTFILE, and DISTVERSION
>>> 
>>> The git clone cmd is: git clone
>>> https://git.code.sf.net/p/nufraw/git nufraw-git
>>> 
>>> This particular git version says it is 0.41 but attempting to
>>> fetch with from PORTVERSION=    0.41 MASTER_SITES=
>>> https://sourceforge.net/projects/nufraw/files/latest/ doesn't
>>> work; PORTVERSION=  0.40 does. I've also tried with DISTVERSION=
>>> 07ebb73a with no joy.
>> 
>> Many thanks to Jeremy Chadwick for guidance. Appropriate values for
>> the above example are:
>> 
>> DISTVERSION= 0.41 MASTER_SITES= SOURCEFORGE/nufraw
> 
> Please use just SF instead, this is the way it is used in practice:
> 
> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefile-distfiles.html#makefile-master_sites-popular
>
>  I guess you didn't read The 'FreeBSD Porter's Handbook' yet. :)

Actually, I did, more than once.
Because of the problem caused by having a mis-matched distinfo lying
around I assumed (erroneously) that SF didn't work and started trying
other things.  The handbook explicitly mentions one might have to do
this.

>> A problem also encountered while searching for a solution was a
>> stale distinfo left over from using the 0.40 version; moving it
>> aside allowed the fetch to complete.  Apparently the distinfo file
>> is checked during the fetch process if it exists, not just at
>> extract time.
> 
> Please don't do that, run 'make makesum' instead.

I know to do that and had all ready done so with the 0.40 version, which
was why the stale distinfo was lying around.  This whole thread came
up because I couldn't get a good fetch to do a make makesum with
because a stale distinfo was lying around.

> Do not forget to run 'portlint -AC' and 'poudriere testport ...'
> before opening a PR! ;)

the portlint part is easy, poudriere not so easy if if it's not what
one uses normally.

Thanks,

Gary