On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 04:18:48PM -0600, Nick Templeton wrote: > I'm working on a port and I'm having some difficulties when it comes to > fetching the source. One of the distfiles has parameters in the URL to grab a > particular version: > http://scriptdev2.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/scriptdev2.tar.gz?view=tar&pathrev=1541 > > And another gets redirected a few times before the actual tarball gets > downloaded: > http://github.com/mangos/mangos/tarball/6343914ef95c4a3291f296c26e5d754bf743c9ad You shouldn't rely on github's tarballs, the download links only last for a few days. I don't think there's a good way to download from github except git, which is not an option for a port.
—Anthony Bentley
