Building all ports when setting up a new buildbot builder

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

On Dec 2, 2014, at 6:40 AM, Daniel J. Luke <dluke at geeklair.net> wrote:

>> On Dec 2, 2014, at 5:57 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
>> So after 99 hours, the Yosemite builder failed building "all" ports, with a memory error:
>> 
>> https://build.macports.org/builders/buildports-yosemite-x86_64/builds/71/steps/compile/logs/err.text
>> 
>> I think we should refrain from trying to build all 20,000 ports at once. It takes over a week anyway. We should instead build smaller sets of ports at a time. Since archives are not uploaded to the packages server until the entire set of ports has been built, building smaller sets of ports will let some packages become available sooner.
> 
> this seems like a reasonable workaround, but it might be nice if we could make building 'all' ports work (and maybe also set things up to upload archives as they become available?)

And possibly use mpstats to weight the order.


Regards,
Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)

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