buildbot questions

[MK-MacPorts at techno.ms]

On Jan 4, 2013, at 11:16 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> I am logged in, and I'm looking at this page:
> 
> https://build.macports.org/builders
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> If I want to force a particular port to build* on two of the buildbots, what field do I put the port name into? We've had the buildbots for so long now, and I'm afraid I still don't know how to do this. I don't see a field labeled "ports" or "portlist". What is the purpose of the repository and project fields? What are the property1-4
> Name/Value fields used for?

Hi Ryan,

fill these out:

  - branch: trunk  (could probably stay empty)
  - property1   Name: portlist     Value: gpsim

all the rest can stay empty.

> * The reason I want to do this is because gpsim failed to build on the snowleopard and lion buildbots, but the reason was a problem with the gtk2-extra port, which I have now fixed, and now I want to re-try the gpsim build. I could just commit a no-op change to the gpsim port but I'd like to learn the better way.
> 
> 
> I think some months back, when trying to puzzle this out, I decided that perhaps I was meant to put into the revision field the revision number that had failed to build that I wanted to retry. I think this worked, but it caused the information about subsequent builds to disappear from the buildbot web interface, which makes me think I'm not doing this right.
> 
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> We need documentation about how to use the buildbot. (Our documentation does not even mention the buildbots' existence.) 
+1


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Marko