Re: Fetching files in non-standard ways

[Roland Illig <roland.illig%gmx.de@localhost>]

david.sainty%dtsp.co.nz@localhost schrieb:
> "OBATA Akio" writes:
> 
>> For gtkimageview, we can define MASTER_SITE as following one:
>> http://trac.bjourne.webfactional.com/attachment/wiki/WikiStart/${DISTNAME}${EXTRACT_SUFX}?format=raw&file=/
> 
> That's inspired :)
> 
> 
> Roland Illig writes:
> 
>> gtkimageview and other packages may create a file called "getsite.sh" in
>> the FILESDIR. See mk/fetch/fetch.mk for details.
> 
> I get the impression this doesn't solve the problem of producing a URL
> with the file name in the middle rather than the end?

Some packages have used this hook to actually download the URL instead
of just returning the list of sites. Therefore I mentioned it.

Roland