MacPorts AutoBuild

[Daniel J. Luke]

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 for better cleanroom
> building.  My MBP's HD gets a bit slow when frequently extracting then
> removing thousands of files....
>
> Give it a try if you'd like and reply here or update the wiki page.


I'm running it now, and it seems pretty cool.

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)
- 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 getting rebuilt multiple times as dependencies since  
everything gets uninstalled between port builds)

We could also do a 'distributed' build test by having the build app  
ask a macports server for a port (or list of ports) it should build  
test and then it could send back the success/failure + log which could  
be stored. We could then send out nag emails (or open tickets)  
automatically for ports that don't build, which would be nice.

Alternatively, we could set up a dedicated build-test system somewhere  
that could test ports as they are changed (perhaps a post-commit hook  
could add to a list of ports to test), but I don't think that  
macosforge has resources for that (yet?)

Thoughts?
--
Daniel J. Luke
+========================================================+
| *---------------- dluke at geeklair.net ----------------* |
| *-------------- http://www.geeklair.net -------------* |
+========================================================+
|   Opinions expressed are mine and do not necessarily   |
|          reflect the opinions of my employer.          |
+========================================================+



-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: PGP.sig
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 194 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
Url : http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-dev/attachments/20080620/7b97c0dd/attachment-0001.sig