How identify and remove leftover files on buildbots?

Marko Käning MK-MacPorts at techno.ms
Wed Nov 5 13:20:39 PST 2014


Hi Josh,

On 05 Nov 2014, at 21:54 , Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:
> No, this isn't just an issue for the buildslaves, it also affects anyone
> who built the old version of the port locally. You need to keep the fix
> until all users can be expected to have upgraded. Usually we give it one
> year.

I agree, well, the difference is though that the user could delete files
these files manually if “sudo port upgrade” complained, while this isn't
possible on the buildbots.

But I see your point, one would want to avoid this for any user.

Greets,
Marko


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