Re: handling redirect download/on the fly packaging URLs?

["OBATA Akio" <obache%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Sat, 02 Jan 2010 04:44:56 +0900, Georg Schwarz 
<georg.schwarz%freenet.de@localhost> wrote:

> I'm trying to add a package which needs to fetch its source (in
> tar.gz format) from http://github.com/philpraxis/ss7calc/tarball/master
> Of course I could add the URL to which one gets redirected, but this
> is insufficent since the tarball is only created on the fly when the
> download URL in requested.
> What's the best way to handle this with pkgsrc?

"master" should not be used in pkgsrc main tree (probaby OK on pkgsrc-wip).
How about waiting for TAG, or based on commit ID?
For example, define MASTER_SITES as following (see prefix `-'), and define 
DISTNAME as you like.

MASTER_SITES=-http://github.com/philpraxis/ss7calc/archives/468e1ffb6860d63fbab9523d6dbc55935913a0bc

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