Re: stable vs. unstable ports?

2009-03-26 Thread Dave Howell
On Mar 23, 2009, at 0:38 , Ryan Schmidt wrote: Before we can allow arbitrary users to submit their builds to a central server, we would need to ensure that a build that occurs on one user's system is *identical* to the build on any other user's computer. This cannot currently be assured

Install from Binary Archives (was Re: port install efficiency issue)

2009-03-26 Thread Dave Howell
On Mar 22, 2009, at 22:54 , Darren Weber wrote: I In effect, every time anybody on this grid has to build a package from source, some kind of meta-package monitor can detect whether the build and install was successful and then make an inquiry of a central managment system as to whether

Re: Re-do MacPorts after upgrading from Tiger to Leopard on PPC?

2009-03-17 Thread Dave Howell
On Mar 13, 2009, at 22:47 , Ryan Schmidt wrote: Then later in the list you will come to mysql5 +server and ask MacPorts to install it and it will go and build the whole thing again, only it won't be able to activate mysql5 +server because mysql5 with no variants is already active. Same f