[Bug 289397] WITHOUT_BLACKLIST_SUPPORT build option is failing

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=289397

--- Comment #8 from Michael Dexter <editor@callfortesting.org> ---
The Build Option Survey (BOS) does perform clean builds. I encountered this
when manually validating each failure, some of which might be from the image
size being too small for modern FreeBSD but I will investigate that separately.

The behavioral change on the clean before build explains a lot and I clearly
missed that memo, which is on me, but other users may do the same.

I have long been concerned that non-default build options with documented but
not validated dependencies are frustrating to use: You kick off a build and it
fails at some random point for non-obvious reasons. The options that must be
added to /etc/src-env.conf are exemplary in this regard: They fail early and
enthusiastically, and provide an obvious error message, which the BOS handles
adequately.

It's on me that I only run the BOS when major releases branch and I have failed
to drum up interest in it. The BOS is definitely dated but it does work. I have
various code snippets to improve its output, give sections of the logs where
the failures appear to have taken place, etc., but it remains an unexciting
tool for an issue (build options) that have a limited audience of interested
people.

Can we spend a few minutes on this topic at EuroBSDcon? (This is not the place
to ask that nor expect an answer to it. But it is in context!)

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