Bug 152645

Summary:	Improve Porters Handbook. Explaing sourceforge links
Product:	Documentation	Reporter:	Aldis Berjoza <aldis>
Component:	Books & Articles	Assignee:	Pav Lucistnik <pav>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Latest
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Aldis Berjoza 2010-11-28 16:10:12 UTC

One must update Porters Handbook to explain how to convert sourceforge download link for use in ports Makefiles...

So far, when I was porting something from sourceforge writing correct download URL was the biggest, problem....

There is absolutely no information about this.

Yesterday, for the first time, I saw information, that actually helped me to port app.

It was javascript by amdmi3@
http://userscripts.org/scripts/review/50136

After I looked at this script, it was finally clear to me, how to convert Stupid Sourceforge URL's

A colourful example would probably be the best (since not everyone know regexp)


I Set severity "serious" and priority "High", because I think this info will help many new porters... and maybe even old porters.

Comment 1 Pav Lucistnik freebsd_committer

2010-11-29 10:25:54 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->feedback

I'm not sure what kind of documentation you expect to exist in PH on this 
topic. I have writted some basic introduction into the new MASTER_SITES macros, 
see here 

http://hood.oook.cz/porters-handbook/makefile-distfiles.html#AEN1507 

Do you have other ideas what to add?

Comment 2 Pav Lucistnik freebsd_committer

2010-11-29 10:25:54 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-doc->pav

Track

Comment 3 Pav Lucistnik freebsd_committer

2010-11-29 14:13:06 UTC

State Changed
From-To: feedback->closed

Cannot do colors but I have included default values

Comment 4 dfilter service freebsd_committer

2010-11-29 14:13:07 UTC

pav         2010-11-29 14:13:01 UTC

  FreeBSD doc repository

  Modified files:
    en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook book.sgml 
  Log:
  - Talk about MASTER_SITES abbreviations and give default values of the widely
    used ones
  
  PR:             docs/152645
  
  Revision  Changes    Path
  1.1085    +112 -8    doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml
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