mass commit needed: python breakage in pkgng repo

[Antoine Brodin]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 7:09 PM, olli hauer <ohauer at gmx.de> wrote:
>>>>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)

Hi,

py-setuptools was updated on Wednesday 16th so all ports depending on
it will be rebuilt during next bulk on the pkg builders.
But I can still bump PORTREVISION on py-salt as for this specific port
the missing egginfo is harmful?  (for most other ports it's harmless)

Cheers,

Antoine