Hi! On Fri, 2026-05-22 at 01:26 -0600, Anthony J. Bentley wrote: > Igor Zornik writes: > > One question: I've noticed they're distributing dependencies in > > an archive on their GitHub publish page. I could use that instead > > of making the modules-get dance. The thing is the filename isn't > > versioned. How does one get around that to make makesum pick up the > > new > > file when the version changes? Is there some kind of tuple trick you > > can use on DISTFILES where the first item would be the source name > > and > > the second how to save the file as? Something like this: > > > > DISTFILES = minify-deps minify-deps-${V} > > > > This isn't an isolated case. A lot of maintainers aren't adding any > > kind of identifiers to their published files, so I guess this is > > sort > > of a general question. > > There are two ways to handle unversioned distfiles. One is to set a > versioned DIST_SUBDIR: > > DIST_SUBDIR = minify-$V > > The other is to use the DISTFILES syntax that exists for this purpose. > It's documented in bsd.port.mk(5): > > Each entry may optionally be of the form > ‘filename{url}sufx’ to > deal with sites that only offer archives as weird urls, > doing the > transfer of urlsufx into result file filenamesufx. For > instance, > if > > DISTFILES = minetest- > {minetest/archive/}${V}${EXTRACT_SUFX} > > then fetch will retrieve from url > ‘minetest/archive/${V}${EXTRACT_SUFX}’ into > ‘minetest-${V}${EXTRACT_SUFX}’. > > Personally, I find the versioned DIST_SUBDIR approach much clearer and > more understandable. Either way is fine though. What's important is > that > if a SHA256 changes in distinfo, the pathname in distinfo (whether the > file part or the directory part or both) *must* *always* change too. > Otherwise the official package bulk builds will break. > Yes, thank you. That's information I was looking for. I'm pretty sure I checked that option in man page, but wasn't sure of its usage until you pointed it out. I've tried it with some other port now and it works as excepted. I'll fiddle with this one when I get a chance.
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