Redports and leftovers calculation

Fernando Apesteguía fernando.apesteguia at gmail.com
Sun Sep 28 20:45:41 UTC 2014


El 28/09/2014 22:31, "Bryan Drewery" <bdrewery at freebsd.org> escribió:
>
> 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.

Thanks for the info.

Just in case someone misses this thread, a note in the blog would be really
useful, I think.

>
> --
> Regards,
> Bryan Drewery
>


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