[MacPorts] #57464: Builtbot: Don't keep huge ports installed

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Mon Oct 29 08:09:32 UTC 2018


#57464: Builtbot: Don't keep huge ports installed
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  Reporter:  ryandesign     |      Owner:  admin@…
      Type:  enhancement    |     Status:  new
  Priority:  Normal         |  Milestone:
 Component:  buildbot/mpbb  |    Version:
Resolution:                 |   Keywords:
      Port:                 |
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Comment (by mojca):

 Just a short note. I'm a maintainer of geant4 and the data files are
 nothing else but "fetch that gigabyte of data & extract it". There's
 basically no penalty in building them (there are no build steps) and the
 files are exactly the same for all OS versions. After you bought this up
 ... maybe I should also add some restrictive licence just for the sake of
 decreasing the space we use on our mirror for binaries. This wouldn't
 solve the issue with storing them on the builder, but it would at least
 help a tiny tiny bit somewhere else. I would be totally in favour of
 simply always deleting geant4 data files from the builders, even if I'm
 not sure about the best way. If you run some kind of a cleanup job ...
 simply put the geant-data files uncoditionally there.

 The only dependent port (Gate) is broken as I'm stuck in the upgrade
 process (the last few times when I tried it failed to build and I didn't
 spend enough time trying to come up with a proper fix; that said, I'm not
 aware of anyone else offering Gate as a dmg, so it would be cool to fix it
 rather than deleting it).

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/57464#comment:2>
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