Suggestion

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

On May 29, 2013, at 6:04 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

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> On May 28, 2013, at 19:46, Craig Treleaven wrote:
>> At 5:26 PM -0500 5/28/13, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>> On May 28, 2013, at 17:17, Chris Jones wrote:
>>>> On 28 May 2013, at 10:59 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>>>> On May 28, 2013, at 16:56, Craig Treleaven wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> I'd like to know that a port has been successfully installed, recently.  IOW that it hasn't suffered bitrot!
>>>>> 
>>>>> To some degree, you can answer that already, by checking if there is a recent package on the packages server.
>>>> 
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>> True but a non-trivial fraction of ports not able to be distributed as binaries.
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>>>> I was about to say the same. To my mind, this question is much better/simply answered by just checking to see if the build bots successfully built the port question. I don't see what you gain by getting user stats as well.
>>> 
>>> Just because the buildbots could build the port when it was last updated doesn't mean that anybody can still build it today. For example, one of its dependencies could have been updated in a way that is incompatible.
>> 
>> Am I missing something; how does one look up whether/when the buildbots built a specific port?
> 
> I'm not aware of a way to look it up. If there's a package on the packages server, then it was built by the buildbots. But the absence of a package on the packages server does not necessarily indicate a buildbot failure; as you say, many ports are not distributable.
> 
> We should think about incorporating information about whether a port was successfully built into the main web site.


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