How to trigger port rebuild for arm64

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Wed Mar 10 05:49:32 UTC 2021


On 2021-3-10 16:24 , Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate via macports-dev wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 9:22 PM Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org 
> <mailto:ryandesign at macports.org>> wrote:
> 
> 
>     On Mar 9, 2021, at 22:06, Dave Allured wrote:
> 
>      > While the ports website is not updating, is there an easy way for
>     me to access build logs for new builds that fail for specific
>     ports?  It's not critical but would help me stay on track.
> 
>     Nope. If the build happened within the past day or so, and
>     especially if you're looking for a build on a specific builder, it
>     can be not too tedious to go page by page through the buildbot
>     waterfall until you find it. For example, if you're looking for
>     macOS 11 arm64 builds you can look through this:
> 
>     https://build.macports.org/waterfall?builder=ports-11_arm64-builder
>     <https://build.macports.org/waterfall?builder=ports-11_arm64-builder>
> 
>     Use your web browser's find function to search for the port name
>     within that page. If it's not found, click the "next page" link at
>     the bottom left of the page and repeat. This is basically what we
>     had to do to find build information before the ports web site
>     existed and is one of the reasons why the ports web site was created.
> 
> 
>   Rather limited, but I can work with it.  Thanks.

Maintainers are supposed to get an email with a link to the build when 
ports fail, which makes it a lot easier, but for some reason that has 
never worked for some subset of maintainers on the current buildbot setup.

- Josh


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