From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 24 12:47:33 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40600106566C for ; Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:47:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erwin@mail.droso.net) Received: from mail.droso.net (grizzly.droso.net [IPv6:2a01:4f8:100:9424::3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D64A08FC14 for ; Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:47:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.droso.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id D7281869E9; Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:47:31 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:47:31 +0200 From: Erwin Lansing To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20111024124731.GN27932@droso.net> References: <4EA55CE6.9040405@yandex.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4EA55CE6.9040405@yandex.ru> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD/amd64 8.2-RELEASE-p3 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Subject: Re: What "exp-run" means and how one do this? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:47:33 -0000 On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 04:41:10PM +0400, Ruslan Mahmatkhanov wrote: > Hi. > > 1. What is in it's name - "experimental run", "expressive run", > "exploitation run"? :) Short for experimental, though the other are good possibilities sometimes as well :-) > 2. How this is done - someone prepares a list of affected ports and just > feed them to tinderd or something other? > Someone prepares a patch against the ports and/or src tree, which someone from portmgr applies on the pointyhat cluster. Pointyhat and tinderbox do share a lot of code, but are separate systems. The (quite detailed, not so much high-level overview) documentation is in the portbuild article[1]. Note that the new codebase mentioned there has moved to projects/ in svn. Erwin 1: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/portbuild/index.html -- Erwin Lansing http://droso.org Prediction is very difficult especially about the future erwin@FreeBSD.org