Triggering builds on buildbots just by committing to user directory not possible?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Sep 24, 2014, at 12:23 AM, Marko Käning wrote:
> 
> I was in the firm believe that our buildbots would somehow filter out commits to user directories
> and start building in case they find a valid and somehow updated MacPorts tree in there.
> 
> That’s why I created my own user dir after all:
> 
>  [07:03] <irker326> HANDLE at macports.org * https://trac.macports.org/changeset/125673 /users/HANDLE: 
>  [07:03] <irker326> Create user repository for HANDLE
> 
> and then added a new port in there
> 
>  [07:11] <irker326> HANDLE at macports.org * https://trac.macports.org/changeset/125674 /users/HANDLE/ (9 files in 5 dirs): 
>  [07:11] <irker326> users/HANDLE/dports/kde/konveration-devel: introduce devel port for konversation
> 
> assuming that the buildbots will start building this new port for me right away on all OSX versions...
> 
> 
> Looks like my assumption was wrong, since nothing happened. :(

I don't know how the buildbot was set up, but I always assumed it built ports in the main dports tree only.

You're saying you're able to force it to build ports in your users tree somehow? If so, I would be worried that it would publish binary packages of those pre-release ports.