Server Migration: buildbot

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Sep 17, 2012, at 10:41, Clemens Lang <cal at macports.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:27:49AM -0400, Craig Treleaven wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> That would require the buildbot to have your port active when running
> rev-upgrade, but the buildbots always start with a clean installation.
> 
> MPAB (the software running the buildbots) needs to be adapted to
> activate all dependent ports one-by-one and run rev-upgrade to detect
> this kind of problems.

And *that* would probably put too much strain on the buildbots. It already sometimes takes them hours to build a certain set of ports. (Whenever I update the php port, for example.)