Re: feature request: a method to try a Port build against the buildbot farm BEFORE it is committed to the main macports repository

2018-07-08 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2018-07-08 18:02, Ken Cunningham wrote: > > On 2018-07-08, at 7:59 AM, Rainer Müller wrote: > >> >> There was a lengthy thread on this in April: >> https://lists.macports.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2018-April/038023.html >> >> Rainer > > I had thought that one was mostly about using GitHub (w

Re: feature request: a method to try a Port build against the buildbot farm BEFORE it is committed to the main macports repository

2018-07-08 Thread Ken Cunningham
On 2018-07-08, at 7:59 AM, Rainer Müller wrote: > > There was a lengthy thread on this in April: > https://lists.macports.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2018-April/038023.html > > Rainer I had thought that one was mostly about using GitHub (which does CI on only a couple of systems). I'll go bac

Re: feature request: a method to try a Port build against the buildbot farm BEFORE it is committed to the main macports repository

2018-07-08 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2018-07-07 21:00, Ken Cunningham wrote: > It would be very helpful to be able to try a Portfile build against the > buildbot farm before committing it. > > We would get lots of info regarding breakage before the damage is done that > way. > > I can see that at present there is no easy metho

Re: feature request: a method to try a Port build against the buildbot farm BEFORE it is committed to the main macports repository

2018-07-07 Thread Joshua Root
On 2018-7-8 05:00 , Ken Cunningham wrote: > It would be very helpful to be able to try a Portfile build against the > buildbot farm before committing it. > > We would get lots of info regarding breakage before the damage is done that > way. > > I can see that at present there is no easy method

feature request: a method to try a Port build against the buildbot farm BEFORE it is committed to the main macports repository

2018-07-07 Thread Ken Cunningham
It would be very helpful to be able to try a Portfile build against the buildbot farm before committing it. We would get lots of info regarding breakage before the damage is done that way. I can see that at present there is no easy method to tweak the system to allow this. Ken