Complicated patching

[Matthew Seaman]

On 17/05/2011 05:32, Matthew Pounsett wrote:
> In a (possibly foolish) attempt to add a third-party patch to an
> application I use *without* abandoning the ports tree for this app,
> I'm trying to make a local modification to the port to download and
> include the patch in the build process.  The problem I'm running into
> is that it is distributed from a source distribution site that uses a
> downloads CGI rather than a direct URL to distribution files, and the
> URI has nothing whatsoever to do with the name of the resulting file.
> This, obviously, breaks MASTER_SITES and DISTFILES because what I
> have to put in DISTFILES doesn't match what would go in the distinfo
> file.

I ran into this with x11-fonts/gentium -- the download URL not
containing the name of the downloaded file as the last component.

In that case, I was able to add a dummy argument to the download URL.
The download CGI ignores it, and it's enough to pacify the ports system.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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