Binary archive missing build strategies?

[Eric Gallager]

Note that the ticket tracking the lack of a universal buildbot is Trac
ticket 35897: https://trac.macports.org/ticket/35897

On Sat, May 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM Ryan Carsten Schmidt
<ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
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> On May 10, 2025, at 09:28, Gregorio Litenstein wrote:
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> I understand that the binary archive is not meant to have every single combination of variants, arch and OS, but I just found one that seems like an odd combination to be missing, and I'm not sure if it's intentional or reflecting some current (or past) issue with the buildbot.
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> In trying to install cmake, my CI failed looking for nghttp2-1.65.0_0+universal.darwin_23.arm64-x86_64.tbz2
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> I was looking for what IS actually available on packages.macports.org and just can't seem to determine whether it being missing is a bug or a feature...
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> The buildbot builds ports with whatever variants they enable by default. Ports don't and generally shouldn't enable their universal variant by default.
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> In addition, buildbot will build ports with the universal variant if that is required while building a dependency.
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> On the packages server I see archives for some versions of nghttp2 with the universal variant for some OS versions and architectures but not others. This suggests that there does exist a port that requires nghttp2 to be universal (it could be wine) but that when that other port was last updated, something failed before getting around to building the universal nghttp2.
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> There are many other reasons why an archive might not be available, including server busy or server outage. We consider archives to be a convenience and their absence not to be a bug.
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> Your build should not have failed due to missing archive unless you requested for that failure to occur by using the "-b" flag on the command line or setting "buildfromsource always" in macports.conf.
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