shellescape proc

[Joshua Root]

On 2020-6-28 17:08 , Fred Wright wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 28 Jun 2020, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> On Jun 27, 2020, at 23:18, Fred Wright wrote:
>>> On Fri, 26 Jun 2020, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> [...]
>>>> Looks like neither shellescape nor quotemeta are documented in the
>>>> guide.
>>>
>>> Perhaps with good reason:
>>>
>>> MacML @21:03:49.192:: Error: Failed to extract curl-ca-bundle:
>>> invalid command name "shellescape"
>>
>> Whoops, didn't realize that it had only just been made available in
>> the not yet released MacPorts 2.7.0 for Portfiles to use. Fixed:
>>
>> https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/commit/6c5276d315e64e99f0a7e57b6cf9940b83e9eab6
>>
>>
>>
>>> This happens on 10.5, 10.8, and 10.12.  The missing binary archives
>>> are consistent with this.
>>
>>
>> That's unrelated.
> 
> Actually, it probably is related, though for a different reason than I
> was suggesting. :-) Presumably the only reason that the upgrade didn't
> fail for the other OS versions was because of the availability of the
> binary archives.  The fact that those existed suggests that the
> buildbots are running with a prerelease version of base, which is why
> they worked (except when the buildbots weren't working for other reasons).
> 
> I'm not convinced that using a prerelease version of base on the
> buildbots is a good idea, though.  What would make more sense is to have
> CI jobs covering both the prerelease and release versions, but to stick
> to the release version on the buildbots for maximum consistency with
> what end users would see.

The buildbot workers are running the current release.

- Josh