On 2015-5-6 18:30 , petr wrote: > > On 6 May 2015, at 05:56, Joshua Root <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 2015-5-6 03:14 , petr wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> in ticket #47571 (https://trac.macports.org/ticket/47571) I am proposing a >>> small addition to mirror_sites.tcl. However, I do not fully understand the >>> function and use of the tag `:nosubdir`. There is some comment in the file >>> >>> {{{ >>> # Appending :nosubdir as a tag to a mirror, means that >>> # the portfetch target will NOT append a subdirectory to >>> # the mirror site. >>> }}} >>> >>> but I still do not understand which effect it will have if this tag was >>> appended. Can anybody comment on this! >> >> Perhaps this is best answered with an example. If we set up a port like >> this: >> >> name testport1 >> version 1.0 >> master_sites apache >> >> then we are using the apache mirror set, which is defined (in part) like >> this: >> >> set portfetch::mirror_sites::sites(apache) { >> http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/apache/ >> >> 'port distfiles testport1' then shows us that the distfile will be >> downloaded from (among others) this URL: >> >> http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/apache/testport1/testport1-1.0.tar.gz >> >> Notice that the port's name has been added as a subdir. >> >> If we then change master_sites to: >> >> master_sites freebsd >> >> which is defined like this: >> >> set portfetch::mirror_sites::sites(freebsd) { >> http://distcache.FreeBSD.org/ports-distfiles/:nosubdir >> } >> >> we then see this from 'port distfiles': >> >> http://distcache.FreeBSD.org/ports-distfiles/testport1-1.0.tar.gz >> >> Which, as the name of the tag suggests, has no added subdir. >> >> - Josh > > Thanks Josh, > > is it then correct, that this tag (`:nosubdir`) is only effective if you use > the mirror class in its plain form? I probably did not observe any effect > because I use in in the form where i append `:<dirs>/`. > > Example: > > If you use > > master_sites freebsd > > this tag is evaluated > > while if you use it in a form like > > master_sites pypi:o/obspy/ > > this has no effect anyway, because the subdir is never added and instead the > string after `:` is added?
Yes, exactly. Well, except the string after the colon *is* a subdir. If you specify a subdir explicitly, that overrides the nosubdir tag. - Josh _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
