Buildbot is offline

[Oleksiy Akimov]

Not sure how buildbot is hosted currently - it may be an idea moving to something stateless like https://cirrus-runners.app/
Much cheaper than GitHub actions and similar alternatives.
And then making build artifacts available on something like AWS S3, so there is no reliance on a single server.

p.s. if the idea is stupid for reasons I am not aware of, please forgive me - I will mind my own business.

From: macports-dev <macports-dev-bounces at lists.macports.org> on behalf of Ryan Carsten Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org>
Date: Sunday, 16. August 2026 at 02:34
To: MacPorts Developers <macports-dev at lists.macports.org>
Subject: Re: Buildbot is offline

On Aug 12, 2026, at 02:45, Ryan Carsten Schmidt wrote:
>
> Buildbot is having problems. Buildmaster was sluggish and having some kind of trouble writing files. The index for the git clone of macports-ports used by the mirror job is corrupt (empty) as is its PortIndex. The SQLite database of pending builds is corrupt too. I can't fix this at the moment so it's offline for now.

Update:

While booted to the main startup volume, Disk Utility's disk check found many problems on the startup disk and although it exited with a successful message, it didn't fix any of them. I didn't check the separate RAID volume yet.

Yesterday, when booting to a macOS Install image, Disk Utility was hanging on launch so I couldn't try to repair the disk there.

Trying again today, Disk Utility is opening properly from the macOS Install image and I'm checking the disks now.


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