> On Mar 20, 2017, at 12:48 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandes...@macports.org> wrote: > > >> On Mar 4, 2017, at 08:10, Craig Treleaven <ctrelea...@macports.org> wrote: >> >>> On Mar 3, 2017, at 10:26 PM, Mojca Miklavec <mo...@macports.org> wrote: >>> >>> On 4 March 2017 at 03:51, Craig Treleaven wrote: >>>> I know that we would like to find a clean solution to building ports with >>>> non-default variants. As an interim step, however, I wonder if we might >>>> consider a buildbot that is configured to default to “+quartz”? >>> >>> We don't even need a separate buildbot. Just a relatively simple >>> improvement to the existing buildbot. >>> >>> See: >>> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/52742 >>> >>> I suggested adding a field to allow manually specifying arbitrary >>> values for variants. But we would need some automatism as well. >>> Perhaps something like the following: >>> >>> If variant quartz exists, build the port once again, but this time >>> with '+quartz' >>> >>> but covering all corner cases (when +x11 +quartz is allowed together >>> and when it is not …). >> >> If we use the existing buildbot instances, won’t they they try to upload >> built binaries to packages.macports.org? > > Of course. Isn't that what you're asking for? If not, why not? > I didn’t think we were ready to serve pre-built binaries for non-default variants. If we are, great.
I was working on darktable at that point. I wanted to ensure that it would build successfully in a clean environment and ideally on other operating system versions. >> Craig >> (Second attempt to send; using lists.macports.org didn’t work.) > > What was the problem? > I still don’t know. When I post (as ctrelea...@macports.org), it sometimes goes through to the list and sometimes doesn’t. I don’t know if other recipients get these emails or not. I don’t get a bounce message or messages.
