On May 28, 2013, at 19:46, Craig Treleaven wrote: > At 5:26 PM -0500 5/28/13, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> On May 28, 2013, at 17:17, Chris Jones wrote: >> > On 28 May 2013, at 10:59 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> >> On May 28, 2013, at 16:56, Craig Treleaven wrote: >> >> >> >>> I'd like to know that a port has been successfully installed, recently. >> >>> IOW that it hasn't suffered bitrot! >>>> >>>> To some degree, you can answer that already, by checking if there is a >>>> recent package on the packages server. >>> > > > True but a non-trivial fraction of ports not able to be distributed as > binaries. > >> > I was about to say the same. To my mind, this question is much >> > better/simply answered by just checking to see if the build bots >> > successfully built the port question. I don't see what you gain by getting >> > user stats as well. >> >> Just because the buildbots could build the port when it was last updated >> doesn't mean that anybody can still build it today. For example, one of its >> dependencies could have been updated in a way that is incompatible. > > Am I missing something; how does one look up whether/when the buildbots built > a specific port?
I'm not aware of a way to look it up. If there's a package on the packages server, then it was built by the buildbots. But the absence of a package on the packages server does not necessarily indicate a buildbot failure; as you say, many ports are not distributable. We should think about incorporating information about whether a port was successfully built into the main web site. _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
