build progress bar

[Ryan Schmidt]

> On Feb 19, 2017, at 04:10, René J.V. Bertin <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Saturday February 18 2017 21:59:25 Ryan Schmidt wrote:
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>>> I never saw that, but that's exactly what it prints for me now.
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>> I... remembered that being removed. But it hasn't been. Huh. 
> 
> Huh indeed. I remember hacking it in myself ...!
> 
>> The idea was that the buildbot would update the database automatically after each build. 
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> I just closed the ticket window but I distinctly remember reading something about users opting in to provide the information. Maybe that applied only to ports not handled by the bots.
> The one advantage of letting bots define this information is that you'd get OS version specific counts which is probably necessary anyway. But I don't really like the idea that each `port build` would query a remote server; I'd much prefer for the database to be installed locally and updated through `port selfupdate`.

Yes, selfupdate is another reasonable mechanism for distributing that information. It could even be just another field in the portindex.