Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/graphics/gtkimageview

[david.sainty%dtsp.co.nz@localhost]

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.

Cheers,

Dave