From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 21 19:51:15 2012 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 375A4106566C for ; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:51:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from linimon@lonesome.com) Received: from mail.soaustin.net (pancho.soaustin.net [76.74.250.40]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10F088FC14 for ; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:51:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.soaustin.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 8360A56172; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:51:14 -0600 (CST) Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:51:14 -0600 From: Mark Linimon To: Chris Rees Message-ID: <20120121195114.GF4729@lonesome.com> References: <4F177264.3090708@freebsd.org> <4F17DB1C.6080503@infracaninophile.co.uk> <4F193FD5.8070208@infracaninophile.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: with the cvs history? trying to help INDEX builds. 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: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:51:15 -0000 On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 12:53:23PM +0000, Chris Rees wrote: > Occasionally someone runs an exp- for sparc64 (lol) etc. You're conflating two different ideas. The arch is orthogonal to TRYBROKEN. > They use TRYBROKEN to test packages marked BROKEN, but ONLY_FOR_ARCHS > sets IGNORE. This part is correct. These ports will never be tested on the build cluster no matter what the state of the toggle. It's a bit academic at the moment, as we haven't had enough horsepower to do a TRYBROKEN on any arch for a really long time. However, with the advent of the NYI machines, we are getting there. For a dummy load for debugging pointyhat-west, I have recently done a -trybroken run on amd64-8. Here is my fist-cut summary of the results: http://wiki.freebsd.org/Trybroken I don't have the cycles to investigate any further, so any and all help would be welcomed. My own theory is that for the tier-2s, since we don't have enough horsepower to do timely regular builds, that there's not much point representing that we can do -trybrokens. Thus, when I poke at sparc64 and powerpc every once in a while, I'm setting BROKEN or ONLY_FOR in the Makefiles just as a service to the users. (OK, and to make it so I have less results to look at after the next run :-) ) mcl