manual download and buildbot ...

[Ryan Schmidt]

> Anyway, I was not surprised that the buildbot would fail on these. But then I am wondering if it was possible to upload such distfiles in some place where it would be available for the buildbots. I'd assume these files should not be publicly mirrored, and the binary packages will not be distributable given its license. It still would be helpful to have a buildbot check on such ports. 

We don't have any provision for such a mechanism at this time.


> If this is not possible, is there a way to avoid any build on the bots at all, so we save such unnecessary tentatives?

This is also not possible right now. All ports that are committed get sent to the buildbot, which will try to build them and will notify on failures.