On Apr 29, 2020, at 08:12, [email protected] wrote:
> On 2020-04-29, at 13:11, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> On Apr 28, 2020, at 06:58, [email protected] wrote:
>>
>>> Ryan Schmidt said:
>>>
>>>> You want:
>>>>
>>>> github.setup snabb downtimed 1.0 version-
>>>> github.tarball_from archive
>>>
>>> but that results in
>>> https://github.com/snabb/downtimed/archive/version-1.0/downtimed-1.0.tar.gz
>>> (the version number in 2 places).
>>
>> That's correct. It works. Use it.
>
> indeed it works,but can you explain why it works?
>
> we want:
> https://github.com/snabb/downtimed/archive/version-1.0.tar.gz
>
> port distfiles says:
> https://github.com/snabb/downtimed/archive/version-1.0/downtimed-1.0.tar.gz
The GitHub web site / web server is programmed to allow both forms to work. In
fact you can specify any filename with a .tar.gz extension after the tag name,
so this also works:
https://github.com/snabb/downtimed/archive/version-1.0/anything.tar.gz
When I wrote the github 1.0 portgroup I decided to program it to use the
distfile naming scheme that we most commonly see with other projects outside of
GitHub, namely ${name}-${version}${extract.suffix}. I dislike distfile names
that do not contain the project name, so since it was possible for us to avoid
that problem, I chose to have the portgroup do so.
