I found no maintainers for port stlink and I wanted to take it if possible.
However, I am quite confused with the portfile mechanism of this port.

After reading the wiki, I know that this portfile specifies a Github Repo from 
which the port system obtains source code. While there are two problems left 
for me.

1. I tried editing portfile locally, changing the version number but port would 
only try fetching the source code from mirrors of MacPorts, rather than 
fetching directly from Github upstream. Is there a way for me to test my 
modifications locally? And how does the mirroring mechanism work? If one 
changed the portfile configuration and merged changes into port tree, would the 
mirrors be synced automatically?
2. I cannot figure out to whom the checksums belongs. I downloaded all 1.6.0 
source code from Github release page while none of them matches the checksum 
specified in the portfile. How can I obtain the file with the expected checksum 
from Github (not from mirrors because I intend to make an upgrade afterwhile so 
that I should find a way to configure checksum)



Regards,
Xim

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