On Sun, 30 Apr 2017 at 10:33 pm, Alexander Moisseev via freebsd-ports < [email protected]> wrote:
> Is there a way to fetch binaries from GitHub instead of sources? > In particular I need to fetch BackupPC-4.1.2.tar.gz from > https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/releases/tag/4.1.2 > Hi Alexander, I believe downloading binaries from GitHub (such as that manually uploaded source tarball) is only possible only using the normal method for downloading source binaries in ports (by defining DISTNAME, EXTRACT_SUFX and MASTER_SITES). I don't believe there exists any shortcut in the ports framework for downloading files attached to tagged releases in GitHub. https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/makefile-distfiles.html Regards, Ben -- -- From: Benjamin Woods [email protected] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
