On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 12:02:46AM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2012/10/20 23:55, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 04:47:47PM -0600, Aaron Bieber wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 04:00:47PM -0400, Jiri B wrote: > > > > On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 12:43:28PM -0600, Aaron Bieber wrote: > > > > > Holla! > > > > > > > > > > Here a port for luakit ( http://luakit.org ). I am just submitting > > > > > this > > > > > for testing / advice for now. I want to see if I get get a github > > > > > tagged-tarball-release to pull from. > > > > > > Upstream doesn't seem to keen on adding tarball releases, and I can't > > > figure out a way to pull github/<user>/<project>/tarball/<tag>. > > > > For projects that only uses the autogenerated tarballs of github, you > > can use this in the Makefile: > > > > MASTER_SITES = https://github.com/<user>/<project>/tarball/<tag>/ > > Don't do this in ports, ask the upstream to create a proper download > (which can be hosted by github), or mirror them instead. These tarball > URLs are dynamically generated and the files can change if github > update git, tar or gzip.
I just wanted to comment what is the correct url for the autogenerated tarballs of github. When I was creating the port for hotot, I didn't find the info. Finally I ran grep for search a example in the port tree. Is it acceptable to use two master_sites, the first with the github url and the second with a mirror?. -- Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado http://juanfra.info
