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Date:      Fri, 15 Nov 2013 13:58:42 -0500
From:      "Adam Weinberger" <adamw@adamw.org>
To:        "Adam Weinberger" <adamw@freebsd.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, "Bryan Drewery" <bdrewery@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r331725 - head/textproc/multimarkdown
Message-ID:  <op.w6ltn4mr49nfxl@projector.lan>

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On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 08:23:09 -0500, Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@freebsd.org>  
wrote:

> On 10/26/2013 12:56 PM, Adam Weinberger wrote:
>> Author: adamw
>> Date: Sat Oct 26 17:56:07 2013
>> New Revision: 331725
>> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/331725
>>
>> Log:
>>   Update to 4.3.2.
>>
>>   The source remains only available through github. It also includes
>>   a couple git submodules, which do not get included in the  
>> auto-generated
>>   source tarballs. Some of these submodules do not have tagged releases.
>>
>>   So, I'm cutting my losses and just checking the source itself out
>>   of github.
>
> This is why we have USE_GITHUB. See /usr/ports/CHANGES for how to use it.
>
> git(1) should not be used for any fetching at all. It short circuits the
> checksum storage and is not a secure method of downloading the source.

Okay, I understand the problems with the port. Everyone keeps telling me  
to use USE_GITHUB, but every time I ask for help I get silence.

1) How do I use USE_GITHUB to fetch distfiles from projects with no tags
	https://github.com/fletcher/human-markdown-reference
2) How do I use USE_GITHUB to fetch distfiles from two different  
GH_ACCOUNTs?
3) How do I use USE_GITHUB to fetch multiple distfiles at all?

# Adam


-- 
Adam Weinberger
adamw@adamw.org
http://www.adamw.org



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