I need help with git

[Greg Larkin]

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On 2/4/13 11:21 AM, Paul Schmehl wrote:
> I'm the maintainer for security/barnyard2.  The software recently 
> changed so that all distros are pulled from github.  The developers
> made new commits, and now the port is broken, and I cannot figure
> out how to fix it.
> 
> Here's the relevant code from the Makefile:
> 
> PORTNAME=       barnyard2 PORTVERSION=    1.11 CATEGORIES=
> security
> 
> MAINTAINER=     pauls at utdallas.edu COMMENT=        Interpreter for
> Snort unified2 binary output files
> 
> LICENSE=        GPLv2
> 
> USE_GITHUB=     yes GH_ACCOUNT=     firnsy GH_PROJECT=
> ${PORTNAME} GH_TAGNAME=     master GH_COMMIT=      4dfdc80
> 
> The master tagname apparently gets moved to the new commit every
> time the developers commit changes.  This is NOT what I want.  I
> want the port to stay at the release version until a new version is
> released.
> 
> I've tried everything I can think of to get this port to pull the
> commit I want.  It does not work.  I've tried changing the tagname
> to v2-1.11, v2-${PORTVERSION}, stable, dev-next, etc., etc.
> Nothing works.
> 
> Here's the git site:
> <https://github.com/firnsy/barnyard2/commits/master>
> 
> If I pull master, I get commit f57e464.  That's not what I want.
> Why doesn't this thing pull the commit I'm telling it to pull?
> 
> I'm so frustrated by this I'm about to drop this port.  I do NOT
> want to have to update the port every time the developers commit
> more code. That is NOT how software should work.
> 
> Is there anyone who can tell me how to fix this problem so the port
> will remain at the release version until the next version is
> released no matter how many commits the developers make?
> 

Hi Paul,

I just changed this line:

GH_TAGNAME=	master

to this:

GH_TAGNAME=     v2-1.11

and it worked fine.

FWIW,
Greg

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