On 2012/10/20 23:55, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 04:47:47PM -0600, Aaron Bieber wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 04:00:47PM -0400, Jiri B wrote:
> > > On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 12:43:28PM -0600, Aaron Bieber wrote:
> > > > Holla!
> > > > 
> > > > Here a port for luakit ( http://luakit.org ).  I am just submitting this
> > > > for testing / advice for now. I want to see if I get get a github 
> > > > tagged-tarball-release to pull from. 
> > 
> > Upstream doesn't seem to keen on adding tarball releases, and I can't
> > figure out a way to pull github/<user>/<project>/tarball/<tag>. 
> 
> For projects that only uses the autogenerated tarballs of github, you
> can use this in the Makefile:
> 
> MASTER_SITES = https://github.com/<user>/<project>/tarball/<tag>/

Don't do this in ports, ask the upstream to create a proper download
(which can be hosted by github), or mirror them instead. These tarball
URLs are dynamically generated and the files can change if github
update git, tar or gzip.

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