[Switching to tech-pkg.]
david.sainty%dtsp.co.nz@localhost writes:
> Greg Troxel writes:
>
>> Module Name: pkgsrc
>> Committed By: gdt
>> Date: Mon Sep 1 13:29:53 UTC 2008
>>
>> Modified Files:
>> pkgsrc/graphics/gtkimageview: Makefile
>>
>> Log Message:
>> Put tarball someplace with a standard name, and reference it there.
>> Include URL to upstream bug about tarball naming.
>
> Ah... I feel your pain.
>
> But I think this is really our problem, I.e. the bug report in ticket
> 27 isn't really fair, we should be able to make requests from Pkgsrc
> like the suggested
> http://trac.bjourne.webfactional.com/attachment/wiki/WikiStart/gtkimageview-1.6.1.tar.gz?format=raw
>
> I have a solution for you, that works in Pkgsrc right now and means
> you can keep using the real master site:
>
> MASTER_SITES=
> http://trac.bjourne.webfactional.com/attachment/wiki/WikiStart/${DISTNAME}${EXTRACT_SUFX}?format=raw&pkgsrcIgnore=
> FETCH_BEFORE_ARGS+= -o ${DISTNAME}${EXTRACT_SUFX}
>
> This relies on trac.bjourne.webfactional.com ignoring parameters it
> doesn't recognise (in this case "pkgsrcIgnore"), but that's usually a
> safe assumption, and it works in this case.
>
> But it would be better if we got rid of this Pkgsrc limitation,
> perhaps supporting a MASTER_SITES_SPECIAL or some such that didn't
> assume it could append the distribution pathname to the end of the
> URLs.
The above feels kludgy in an individual makefile, but could be
encapsulated in a MASTER_SITE_IS_TRAC macro.
The hardest problem is to get this behavior when downloading from that
site, and the normal behavior when downloading from a regular mirror.
pkgsrc seems to have it wired pretty deep that there are distfiles, and
directory URLs, and that one can combine them. So that really argues
for a variables that says a particular site is special, and wants a
suffix, and to have the output directed to a different place.
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