On 2019-1-14 01:11 , Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On Sun, 13 Jan 2019 at 14:32, iEFdev wrote: >> >> there is that other thing - that the commit I used is the last one made, and >> it's ≈ 2 years newer than last release. > > This is often a perfectly valid usecase for fetching the source from > git. You just need to make sure that you don't specify master, but > provide the shasum instead. (And you need to live with the fact that > until we merge the code from base, those sources would be re-fetched > each time when you compile your port.)
GitHub will generate a tarball for any commit you name, so there's no need to use fetch.type git in this case. > I would suggest you to post your code somewhere and then it will be > easier to understand what goes wrong. Agreed. - Josh
