[MacPorts] #52989: buildbot: allow building 'pseudoports'

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#52989: buildbot: allow building 'pseudoports'
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  Reporter:  mojca           |      Owner:  admin@…
      Type:  enhancement     |     Status:  new
  Priority:  Low             |  Milestone:
 Component:  server/hosting  |    Version:
Resolution:                  |   Keywords:  buildbot
      Port:                  |
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Comment (by mojca):

 How exactly would you handle the situation after a new build slave gets
 added?

 I'm not saying that we should do that on a weekly basis. But I claim that
 current situation is worse. Some people are in favour of letting the
 builds go through after modifying all ports. At the moment we have zero
 experience of the consequences of such action. It would be much much much
 safer if we could try building a subset of ports (but still a large enough
 sample) to even get a rough idea of problems that we might want to address
 before trying to let such a huge build go through.

 Some people also say that we should let the build go through because
 that's a rare occasion that lets us fill in the missing builds, also
 because it's currently not easy to do so. In my opinion it would be better
 if we could start partial builds ten times rather than doing them all at
 once.

 A random committer may already just touch all ports (for example add a
 blank line at the end; or replace the formatting of maintainer or anything
 else, ...). So it's already "easy enough".

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/52989#comment:6>
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