Semi-automating updates

[David Strubbe]

Hi Ryan,

I would just like to point out regarding testsuites that it can sometimes
happen in my experience for the test phase to fail because of a problem in
packaging rather than an inherent problem in the source. For example,
something wasn't linked properly, and the way a library was passed to
configure needs to be revised, or something like that.

David

On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 9:11 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org>
wrote:

>
> On Mar 24, 2018, at 18:41, Michael Dickens wrote:
>
> > The only other "gotcha" I wonder about is including buildbots for
> various target OSs [do PRs already go through building on (say) 10.6 and
> newer?]
>
> The Buildbot is not currently involved in doing builds of PRs. There has
> been discussion on the mailing list about how that might be accomplished;
> see other thread.
>
> Currently PRs are tested by a separate build infrastructure on Travis. It
> runs on three systems: Xcode 7.3 on OS X 10.11, Xcode 8.3 on macOS 10.12,
> and Xcode 9.3beta on macOS 10.13. These builds deliver different results
> than the Buildbot would. For example, if a port requires pkgconfig, and
> that dependency has not been declared, the build on the Buildbot will
> likely fail because pkgconfig is not there; the developer can notice this
> and correct the error. But on Travis, pkgconfig often gets installed as a
> dependency earlier in the process, so we won't notice if a port has failed
> to declare that dependency (until the PR gets merged and then built by the
> Buildbot). Another problem with the Travis setup is that because it starts
> from a clean slate every time, it has to install all dependencies first; if
> a dependency is nondistributable and has to be built from source, and
> especially if it is a large dependency, that can take more time than Travis
> allows, and the build times out; in that case, we have no information about
> whether the build would have succeeded or not, if allowed to finish.
>
>
>
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