What "exp-run" means and how one do this?

[Ruslan Mahmatkhanov]

Thanks, Erwin, for explanation.

Erwin Lansing wrote on 24.10.2011 16:47:
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 04:41:10PM +0400, Ruslan Mahmatkhanov wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> 1. What is in it's name - "experimental run", "expressive run",
>> "exploitation run"? :)
>
> Short for experimental, though the other are good possibilities
> sometimes as well :-)
>
>> 2. How this is done - someone prepares a list of affected ports and just
>> feed them to tinderd or something other?
>>
> Someone prepares a patch against the ports and/or src tree, which
> someone from portmgr applies on the pointyhat cluster.  Pointyhat and
> tinderbox do share a lot of code, but are separate systems.  The (quite
> detailed, not so much high-level overview) documentation is in the
> portbuild article[1].  Note that the new codebase mentioned there has moved
> to projects/ in svn.
>
> Erwin
>
> 1: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/portbuild/index.html


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Regards,
Ruslan

Tinderboxing kills... the drives.