Re: MacPorts AutoBuild

On Aug 2, 2008, at 8:51 PM, Rainer Müller wrote: Rainer Müller wrote: I imported it to contrib/mpab today. I also added the Subversion url to the wiki page at . Can somebody with the appropriate permissions please remove the tarball from

Re: MacPorts AutoBuild

Rainer Müller wrote: > I imported it to contrib/mpab today. I also added the Subversion url to > the wiki page at . Can somebody with the appropriate permissions please remove the tarball from to avoid confusion? > Everybo

Re: MacPorts AutoBuild

Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > On Jun 20, 2008, at 5:06 PM, Bryan Blackburn wrote: > >> Some basic stuff at , the readme >> in the tarball has more info currently than that wiki page. > > Is there a place for ongoing development of this? I've already got some

Re: MacPorts AutoBuild

On Jul 3, 2008, at 10:45 PM, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > On Jun 20, 2008, at 5:06 PM, Bryan Blackburn wrote: > >> Some basic stuff at , the readme >> in the tarball has more info currently than that wiki page. > > Is there a place for ongoing development of this

Re: MacPorts AutoBuild

On Jun 20, 2008, at 5:06 PM, Bryan Blackburn wrote: Some basic stuff at , the readme in the tarball has more info currently than that wiki page. Is there a place for ongoing development of this? I've already got some Leopard-specific changes which will r

Contrib area (was: Re: MacPorts AutoBuild)

Ryan Schmidt wrote: > The page says MPAB is to be downloaded from the attachment on that > wiki page. Why not put it in the repository somewhere, like in /users/ > blb? Maybe we should create a 'contrib area' in our repository? That would be another directory like /trunk/contrib or /trunk/tool

Re: MacPorts AutoBuild

On Jun 24, 2008, at 2:55 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > ... > Does MPAB just try to build the port with its default variants, or > does it try all permutations of variants the port will accept? I > imagine it's not uncommon for maintainers to test a new version of a > port with the default variants bu

Re: MacPorts AutoBuild

On Jun 23, 2008, at 10:51 PM, Bryan Blackburn wrote: > So far it's working fine, it's tried to build about 170 ports (23 > failed, some because of dependencies failing). Watching things like > the chroot/opt/local/[lib|bin] show things coming and going as they > should, which should allow ports

Re: MacPorts AutoBuild

On May 31, 2008, at 16:24, Bryan Blackburn wrote: > I just finished uploading what I've been working on for the last few > weeks off and on, my redo of my old DarwinPorts AutoBuild scripts. > See > > The page says MPAB is to be downloaded from the attachme

Re: MacPorts AutoBuild

On Jun 22, 2008, at 8:46 AM, Daniel J. Luke wrote: > On Jun 20, 2008, at 8:00 PM, Bryan Blackburn wrote: >> >> Hmm, that's an interesting thought; since activate only creates hard >> links it'll definitely be faster than extracting the archive followed >> by creating those hard links. While inact

Re: MacPorts AutoBuild

On Jun 20, 2008, at 8:00 PM, Bryan Blackburn wrote: Have you tried using activate/deactivate instead of archives/ uninstall? I don't know if it would be significantly faster or not, but it would probably be worth testing. I might eventually have time to investigate this (but probably not for the

Re: MacPorts AutoBuild

Bryan Blackburn wrote: > On Jun 20, 2008, at 3:13 PM, Daniel J. Luke wrote: > > ... >> >> Have you tried using activate/deactivate instead of archives/ >> uninstall? I don't know if it would be significantly faster or not, >> but it would probably be worth testing. I might eventually have time

Re: MacPorts AutoBuild

On Jun 20, 2008, at 4:50 PM, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > ... > > Does it also support picking up where it left off, or is it an > assumption that once you've generated this initial list of ports, > you're committed to trying to build the whole thing from beginning to > end? The latter scenario is

Re: MacPorts AutoBuild

On Jun 20, 2008, at 3:13 PM, Daniel J. Luke wrote: ... > > > Have you tried using activate/deactivate instead of archives/ > uninstall? I don't know if it would be significantly faster or not, > but it would probably be worth testing. I might eventually have time > to investigate this (but pr

Re: MacPorts AutoBuild

On Jun 20, 2008, at 2:07 PM, Bryan Blackburn wrote: > While what I've written does have some of it early lineage from your > buildall.sh script, it's definitely changed a bit. The good news is > that of the 150+ or so ports I had MPAB try to build here, a vast > majority of them built successful

Re: MacPorts AutoBuild

On Jun 20, 2008, at 4:47 PM, Bryan Blackburn wrote: Currently, I simply punt on this issue, since it'd be tough to figure out what settings for various macports.conf values would be best for a given use. You can use './mpab mount' to mount the chroot and 'vi mpchroot/opt/local/etc/macports/macpo

Re: MacPorts AutoBuild

On Jun 20, 2008, at 1:28 PM, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > ... > Of course that simply never happened, at > least not beyond my own primitive attempts, all of which yielded such > terrible results [>50% failure rates] that I came to have dark > suspicions about my methodology for creating the build ch

Re: MacPorts AutoBuild

On Jun 20, 2008, at 12:11 PM, William Siegrist wrote: > ... > > > Once MacPorts has the software ready for a build system, I can start > requesting hardware to support it. I have not looked at MPAB yet to > see how close it is to an automatic build system. I also remember > James saying MPWA

Re: MacPorts AutoBuild

On Jun 20, 2008, at 11:10 AM, Daniel J. Luke wrote: ... > > 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) Currently, I simply punt on this issue,

Re: MacPorts AutoBuild

On Jun 20, 2008, at 11:11 AM, William Siegrist wrote: > Once MacPorts has the software ready for a build system, I can start > requesting hardware to support it. I have not looked at MPAB yet to > see how close it is to an automatic build system. I also remember > James saying MPWA would be

Re: MacPorts AutoBuild

On Jun 20, 2008, at 10:10 AM, Daniel J. Luke wrote: 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 i

Re: MacPorts AutoBuild

On Jun 20, 2008, at 1:10 PM, Daniel J. Luke wrote: - 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 getti

Re: MacPorts AutoBuild

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 f