Subject: Re: fetching distfiles that require extra bits appended to URL
To: Mark Davies <mark@mcs.vuw.ac.nz>
From: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 05/18/2007 17:15:44
On Sat, 19 May 2007, Mark Davies wrote:
> I'm trying to write a package for opensync however in order to
> fetch the tarball you need to supply the URL:
>
> http://www.opensync.org/attachment/wiki/download/libopensync-0.22.tar.bz2?format=raw
>
> note the required "?format=raw" on the end. How can you do this in
> pkgsrc?
An idea is in pkgsrc/net/vncviewer/Makefile
Jeremy C. Reed