establish installed dependency not in portfile

[Mojca Miklavec]

On 23 October 2017 at 10:40, db wrote:
> On 9 Oct 2017, at 12:46, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>> On 8 October 2017 at 22:05, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>>> On Oct 8, 2017, at 14:46, db wrote:
>>>> Until then, since I always build from source, I rather save CPU time. Speaking of which, getting back to my first post, is there any way to query the build time from the buildbots? It'd be useful to estimate when to do an update.
>>> No, we don't have anything that estimates build time.
>> That info is easy to read and collect from the buildbot. The keyword is: "to collect".
>> Db, we can offer you help if you are willing to write a script to crawl through buildbot results and collect statistics.
>
> I checked https://build.macports.org/json/help, but couldn't find it.

For example:
- https://build.macports.org/json/builders/ports-10.13_x86_64-builder/builds/10627?as_text=1
which corresponds to
- https://build.macports.org/builders/ports-10.13_x86_64-builder/builds/10627

The idea would be to write a script to iterate through all numbers
from 1 on and store results somewhere.

If you want the time estimate specifically, here might be the relevant
information:

      "name": "install-port",
...
      "times": [
        1508901749.648058,
        1508901850.387383
      ]

I guess the difference represents the seconds spent building the port.

Mojca