On Jan 26, 2008, at 23:14, George A. Dowding wrote:

I am trying to create a Portfile for kohana. It distribution mechanism is a web form that builds a bundle at download time.

How best to tell mac ports to download the distribution by using this url? http://kohanaphp.com/download.html?group=standard&languages%5Ben_US% 5D=en_US&format=zip

Nothing comes to mind, unfortunately. I can't think of a way to coerce the MacPorts fetch code into downloading from that kind of a URL. You might have to write your own fetch procedure, and that could be messy. Could you try instead to encourage the developers of kohana to offer a more normal download location? They can still drive it through a script if they like; they just get the parameters from $_SERVER ['PATH_INFO'] instead of from $_GET. For example: download.php/standard/en_US/Kohana_v2.0_2007-11-20.zip