Redports and leftovers calculation

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 03:31:04PM -0500, Bryan Drewery wrote:
> On 9/28/2014 7:42 AM, Fernando Apesteguía wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > While working on a new port, my builds report leftovers as if I'm
> > wiping out /usr/local on package removal:
> > 
> > https://redports.org//~fernape/20140927175500-61315-248739/code-eli-0.3.6_1.log
> 
> Yes. The truth is that Tinderbox (which Redports uses) has been wrong
> about QA since at least April 2014. The recent Pkg changes have only
> made it a little more obvious.
> 
> Someone really needs to fix Tinderbox. The list of work is here:
> https://people.freebsd.org/~bdrewery/tinderbox-work.txt
> 
> I suggest people stop using Redports for QA. It is only useful for
> checking if it builds - not if it packages or has plist/QA issues.
> 

As a complement please notice that works is going on to make redports use
poudriere as a backend so it gets back proper QA checking.

regards,
Bapt
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