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Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2017 14:04:34 +0200
From: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
Cc: ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org,
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Subject: Re: svn commit: r449357 - in head/net-p2p/mktorrent: . files
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Alexey Dokuchaev:

> > ...
> > -MASTER_SITES=	SF
> > +MASTER_SITES=	https://github.com/Rudde/mktorrent/archive/
> > +DISTNAME=	v${PORTVERSION}
> > +DIST_SUBDIR=	${PORTNAME}
> 
> Why not use USE_GITHUB and avoid having to set MASTER_SITES and all these
> DIST_SUBDIR dances?

I don't know which scheme is preferable.  The Porter's Handbook
section on USE_GITHUB starts with "If the distribution file comes
from a specific commit or tag on GitHub for which there is no
officially released file, [...]".  But here we have an officially
released if awkwardly named distfile.

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de