mass commit needed: python breakage in pkgng repo

[olli hauer]

>>>On 2014-07-22 17:34, Nick Hilliard wrote:> sysutils/py-salt has been broken for the last couple of weeks.  The
>>>> resulting package didn't include the python egg info directory and as a
>>>> result, py-salt crashed on startup.  There a PR in bugzilla for this:
>>>> 
>>>> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=191986
>>>> 
>>>>>From what I can tell, this problem has been fixed by this commit:
>>>> 
>>>> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision&revision=362364
>>>> 
>>>> So py-salt will need to be rebuilt in the freebsd pkgng repo, but because
>>>> the fix was in bsd.python.mk, the port will need to have PORTREVISION
>>>> bumped in order to flush out the broken version from the pkgng repo.
>>>> 
>>>> I've attached a list of other ports which may also be broken (i.e. ports
>>>> whose makefiles include the text USE_PYDISTUTILS but not
>>>> PYDISTUTILS_AUTOPLIST).  Some of these ports may also need to rebuilt, but
>>>> without testing each one of them individually, it may not be be possible to
>>>> tell which.
>>>> 
>>>> Could someone consider doing a mass commit to each of these ports to bump
>>>> PORTREVISION so that any potential breakage is flushed out of the pkg repos?
>>>> 

Sorry, my mobile has taken the discussion out of list ...

>>>> isn't it easier to bump python instead ?
>>> yep sure would, but that will force a rebuild of ~2700 ports instead of 300.

>> I suspect even more then the 2300 ports (depening ports also counting) but
>> this way really everything will be cached.
>> Dont know if the snap for weekly build was already taken if not it would be
>> an option
> 
> tbh, i'm not familiar enough with the main repo build process +
> consequences to be able to assess how best to deal with this.
> 

Best to address this also to portmgr@ for decicission (added to CC)