Server Migration: buildbot

Craig Treleaven ctreleaven at cogeco.ca
Mon Sep 17 08:36:51 PDT 2012


At 11:32 AM -0400 9/17/12, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:
>  > Been meaning to ask...I'm a newbie maintainer.  One of the 
>hoped-for benefits of developing my port was that the buildbots 
>would rebuild it each time a dependency changed and that I'd be 
>notified of any failed builds.  Alas, I found at the end that a 
>license conflict means that binaries can't be distributed and that 
>the buildbots only build for distribution.
>>
>>  Would it be possible to set up the buildbots to test build 
>>(certain?) ports even though the binaries can't be distributed?
>>
>>  Or would this put too much load on the buildbots?
>
>They build regardless; in fact they make use of their own archives. 
>These archives are only published if the license allows it.

Is the maintainer notified of failures?  I've never seen such but 
maybe I'm just batting 1.000 still?  ;)

Craig


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