port can't fetch from master_sites URL containing space in path

[elelay (Eric Le Lay)]

I would like to fetch ​ige-mac-integration-0.9.6.tar.bz2 in the "GTK-OSX Build" directory of the sf.net project called gtk-osx.

Here is the log :

--->  Attempting to fetch ige-mac-integration-0.9.6.tar.bz2 from http://lil.fr.distfiles.macports.org/gtk-osx-application
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
DEBUG: Fetching failed:: The requested URL returned error: 404
--->  Attempting to fetch ige-mac-integration-0.9.6.tar.bz2 from http://sourceforge.net/projects/gtk-osx/files/GTK-OSX
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 71562  100 71562    0     0  45729      0  0:00:01  0:00:01 --:--:--  103k

what is in Portfile is :

master_sites    http://sourceforge.net/projects/gtk-osx/files/GTK-OSX Build/
distname        ige-mac-integration-${version}
use_bzip2       yes

A direct fetch from sourceforge didn't work, but the download script on the macports mirror seemed to succeed (you can try to port fetch gtk-osx-application and it will fetch from distfiles.mp.org).

I open a bug this time so someone explains how to express the download url or confirms it's a bug in MP.

To try out for yourself, upgrade the version in devel/gtk-osx-application/Portfile to 0.8.6

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Encode the space as %20.

[elelay (Eric Le Lay)]

Replying to jmr@…:

Encode the space as %20.

you're right ! I thought I had tried it (several times) but it works. So I'm closing the bug report, Thanks !

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

It would be nice if we could do that automatically, but one of Tcl's drawbacks is that it stores lists (such as master_sites) as strings with elements separated by spaces, so handling lists of strings that may contain spaces gets messy really quickly.