Redports and leftovers calculation

[Bryan Drewery]

On 9/28/2014 3:39 PM, Fernando Apesteguía wrote:
> 
> El 28/09/2014 22:31, "Bryan Drewery" <bdrewery at freebsd.org
> <mailto: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.
> 

Agreed.

And actually I'm willing to pay someone $100 (total) to fix tinderbox.
It's not much but no one has seemed interested.

-- 
Regards,
Bryan Drewery

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