[MacPorts] #36277: livechecks of various ports are broken

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#36277: livechecks of various ports are broken
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  Reporter:  kuba@…  |      Owner:  macports-tickets@…
      Type:  defect  |     Status:  new
  Priority:  Normal  |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports   |    Version:  2.1.2
Resolution:          |   Keywords:  livecheck
      Port:          |
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Comment (by ryandesign@…):

 Replying to [comment:2 kuba@…]:
 > I'll start with ports that are maintainer and openmaintainer and file
 individual tickets for those. It's the smallest group. I'll then move on
 to openmaintainer ones and still submit tickets one-by-one. The
 nomaintainer ports will be done as large patches added to this ticket.
 Makes sense?

 That sounds ok.

 > Yes, `port livecheck all` is pretty damn slow. I've cheated by splitting
 up the portlist in 30 chunks and running each of those in parallel. Makes
 it take 10 minutes :)

 In fact, I don't run "port livecheck maintainer:ryandesign"; I run a
 [browser:users/ryandesign/scripts/portmylivecheck script] that runs the
 livechecks in parallel.

 > My reason is to get an idea for how many ports are there that are out of
 date. Seems like quite a lot, unfortunately.

 Yes. Of the ~9100 portfiles in our collection, ~3600 do not have a
 maintainer listed, so many of these are probably out of date or do not
 work. And many of the remaining ports probably need updates too, due to
 maintainers who have left and not notified us, or who have not checked for
 updates, or where the update does not work. So it would not surprise me if
 there were thousands of ports needing updates.

 So it helps to prioritize the work based on what ports people actually
 want to use. If a port has an update available, or does not build, but
 nobody has filed a ticket about it, there's a chance nobody is actually
 using the port and we could work on fixing a different port instead.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/36277#comment:3>
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