On 13 December 2016 at 06:02, Marko Käning wrote: > Hi MacPorts core devs, > > I was wondering whether it is possible to configure the buildbots in such a > way > that they can observe if a just rebuilt port is a dependency of other ports > which > haven’t been built successfully yet. If such a case is met it could trigger a > rebuild-cascade which makes sure that all those already failed ports waiting > for > their dependency to appear will (hopefully) also succeed in building. > > P.S.: Should I create a trac ticket for this, or does something like that > exist > as a planned feature or is it perhaps even already implemented in > MacPorts?
Yes, you can open a ticket (put "buildbot" in the keywords). There's no such functionality yet, but it would be quite a neat feature. I imagine that we need to start by collecting the buildbot statistics somewhere: something that we should do anyway. Then we could easily fetch the list of all ports that failed due to broken port X and rebuild just those. (I probably wouldn't go for all ports that could potentially depend on that port, or that could be a special/different feature.) I wouldn't mind if we would do this semi-manually for a while; in particular doing it automatically would be a problem on our 10.5/ppc builder. That is: manually trigger a "force build", but in a way that it won't require manually typing in all the ports other than the dependency. Mojca
