> On Mar 11, 2018, at 06:06, db <iams...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 11 Mar 2018, at 02:47, "Kenneth F. Cunningham" >> <ken.cunningham.web...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On 2018-03-10, at 12:23 PM, db wrote: >>> Except for building from source for minor versions and revbumps, especially >>> large binaries, and for ports that have open defects. Oh well… >> Well, everything for 10.6.8 users on MacPorts is about to get supremely >> better. Hard to be too upset about that! > > I don't doubt that! What I don't understand is, why would port be allowed to > build a port from source on a certain system that already failed on the > buildbot, and what's worse, be left with a port in a non-working state, while > downloading binaries would work, because it couldn't donwload something > that's failed to build.
You can sent your buildfromsource value to "never" I believe .... would that do what you're asking? K
