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non port: ports-mgmt/portscout/files/patch-Portscout_SiteHandler.pm

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Sunday, 8 Nov 2015
07:37 koobs search for other commits by this committer
ports-mgmt/portscout: Add GitHub and PyPI site handlers & MORE!

Over the past several months portscout.freebsd.org appears to have been
more frequently NOT finding updates, particularly for ports that use
CHEESESHOP (PyPI) as their MASTER_SITES.

Portscout has also never worked for ports using GitHub for distribution
files due to the following:

  a) Portscout, prior to 'guessing', requests a randomly named file
     from the Site and expects a 4xx (404) in response. If it doesn't
     receive a 4xx response, it increments a 'lie counter' and does not
     check the site again in the next run.
  b) The GitHUB handlers (SUBDIR/MASTER_SITES) in bsd.sites.mk
     construct a URL that ends in a a dummy query paramater (for the
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