On May 31, 2008, at 5:24 PM, Bryan Blackburn wrote:
I've had it successfully build about 145 ports so far, with several failing for various reasons. It starts to slow down when you are dealing when building a port with many dependencies as it will uninstall all ports between each build attempt for better cleanroom building. My MBP's HD gets a bit slow when frequently extracting then removing thousands of files....Give it a try if you'd like and reply here or update the wiki page.
I'm running it now, and it seems pretty cool.I don't know if you have plans for future development, but I was thinking the following would be good:
- Add a way to add more macports.conf settings (enabling parallel builds perhaps) - Use archive mode or activate/inactivate to speed things up for ports with lots of dependencies (unless I'm missing something, I think that ports end up getting rebuilt multiple times as dependencies since everything gets uninstalled between port builds)
We could also do a 'distributed' build test by having the build app ask a macports server for a port (or list of ports) it should build test and then it could send back the success/failure + log which could be stored. We could then send out nag emails (or open tickets) automatically for ports that don't build, which would be nice.
Alternatively, we could set up a dedicated build-test system somewhere that could test ports as they are changed (perhaps a post-commit hook could add to a list of ports to test), but I don't think that macosforge has resources for that (yet?)
Thoughts? -- Daniel J. Luke +========================================================+ | *---------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------* | | *-------------- http://www.geeklair.net -------------* | +========================================================+ | Opinions expressed are mine and do not necessarily | | reflect the opinions of my employer. | +========================================================+
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