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

[Le Baron d’Merde]

On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 07:05:49AM -0600, Gary Aitken wrote:
> 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.

You could just got the stale file removed/deleted from /usr/ports/distfiles too.

> 
> > 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

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Best Regards.
LBdM.