> On Feb 19, 2017, at 04:10, René J.V. Bertin <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Saturday February 18 2017 21:59:25 Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >>> I never saw that, but that's exactly what it prints for me now. >> >> I... remembered that being removed. But it hasn't been. Huh. > > Huh indeed. I remember hacking it in myself ...! > >> The idea was that the buildbot would update the database automatically after >> each build. > > I just closed the ticket window but I distinctly remember reading something > about users opting in to provide the information. Maybe that applied only to > ports not handled by the bots. > The one advantage of letting bots define this information is that you'd get > OS version specific counts which is probably necessary anyway. But I don't > really like the idea that each `port build` would query a remote server; I'd > much prefer for the database to be installed locally and updated through > `port selfupdate`.
Yes, selfupdate is another reasonable mechanism for distributing that information. It could even be just another field in the portindex.
