Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> writes: > On Aug 16, 2015, at 4:21 PM, Sean Farley wrote: >> >> Ryan Schmidt writes: >> >>> On Aug 16, 2015, at 14:49, Sean Farley wrote: >>>> >>>> Since the public beta of El Capitan has been out for a while, is there >>>> any chance we can get a buildbot set up so that we're ready for the >>>> release? >>> >>> In the past, we haven't set up a build server for an OS until it public >>> release. It's conceivable that something would change between now and final >>> release that would necessitate rebuilding packages... >> >> Well, it's a buildbot. We could just, you know, rebuild things. > > We've never had the situation arise before, so we don't have a procedure in > place for accomplishing that, so I'd rather not risk getting into that > situation.
So maybe we should create a procedure for that? >> In the >> recent past, the main delay has been allocating the resources for a new >> buildbot, so I figured getting the ball rolling now might help getting >> the buildbot sooner. > > This is true, and I've put in a request: > > https://trac.macports.org/ticket/48609 Thanks! >> I think this would be a great time to get reports on which packages have >> trouble building on El Capitan before the main release. > > Perhaps, but after a buildbot build server is initially set up, it takes > weeks to build all ports. The resulting log would surely be gigabytes in > size. I doubt anyone would be interested in downloading and analyzing that. I definitely would. > If you have 10.11 beta installed, I recommend you install the ports you > maintain, and work on fixing any problems you encounter (both with your ports > directly or with their dependencies, with proper maintainer approval, of > course). If everyone does this in advance of the 10.11 release, that'll be a > great help. Sure, but as a fair warning to others, El Capitan broke things[1] so I needed to install 10.11 on an extra computer. [1] http://superuser.com/questions/935756/mac-os-el-capitan-10-11-not-able-to-connect-to-wifiwpa-2-enterprise _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
