buildbot questions

[Marko Käning]

On Aug 2, 2011, at 6:29 PM, Arno Hautala wrote:
> And how does the build proceed? Seeing as there are ports that
> conflict with each other, I imagine that a straight "port install all"
> would run into problems. Starting each port build without any other
> ports already installed would probably be a good (albeit more lengthy)
> test that would also catch missing dependencies.
Yes, you are right, there are many conflicting ports. A straight "install all" can't ever be successful. I didn't think about that. So, I guess, the buildbot maintainer(s) would have to come up with a pretty clever strategy to get everything built.
Yep, especially the catching of missing dependencies would be of great value.
But I guess you are right, this whole stuff is time consuming.
And it certainly needs some strategy to avoid reoccurring deadlocks due to port conflicts.