On May 29, 2013, at 6:04 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > 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.
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