> 
> I'll just weigh in to say that the purpose of our buildbot setup (the way 
> that it is currently conceived) is to build binary packages that are 
> distributed to users when they install ports. The purpose of the buildbot is 
> not to periodically rebuild ports to discover breakages.
> 
> In this case, the problem occurred because the maintainer of the port did not 
> update it before it broke. The maintainer should get into the habit of 
> updating the port before it breaks and/or the maintainer should set the fetch 
> depth such that the port will not break before the next time they update the 
> port.
> 

Ok, thank you for letting my know, Ryan. I did not know this.

Nate

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