On Jan 4, 2013, at 11:16 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> I am logged in, and I'm looking at this page:
> 
> https://build.macports.org/builders
> 
> If I want to force a particular port to build* on two of the buildbots, what 
> field do I put the port name into? We've had the buildbots for so long now, 
> and I'm afraid I still don't know how to do this. I don't see a field labeled 
> "ports" or "portlist". What is the purpose of the repository and project 
> fields? What are the property1-4
> Name/Value fields used for?

Hi Ryan,

fill these out:

  - branch: trunk  (could probably stay empty)
  - property1   Name: portlist     Value: gpsim

all the rest can stay empty.

> * The reason I want to do this is because gpsim failed to build on the 
> snowleopard and lion buildbots, but the reason was a problem with the 
> gtk2-extra port, which I have now fixed, and now I want to re-try the gpsim 
> build. I could just commit a no-op change to the gpsim port but I'd like to 
> learn the better way.
> 
> 
> I think some months back, when trying to puzzle this out, I decided that 
> perhaps I was meant to put into the revision field the revision number that 
> had failed to build that I wanted to retry. I think this worked, but it 
> caused the information about subsequent builds to disappear from the buildbot 
> web interface, which makes me think I'm not doing this right.
> 
> 
> We need documentation about how to use the buildbot. (Our documentation does 
> not even mention the buildbots' existence.) 
+1


Happy New Year!!!

Greets,
Marko
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