Should poudriere skip (IGNORE) a port marked BROKEN?

John W. O'Brien john at saltant.com
Sun Dec 13 14:25:19 UTC 2015


On 12/13/15 3:25 AM, Kurt Jaeger wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> [ports marked BROKEN are build in poudriere and fail]
> 
>> But poudriere goes ahead with the build, fails on the broken dependency,
>> and skips the port without printing or logging my helpful BROKEN message.
>>
>> Is this by design, or a flaw in my understanding or in poudriere's
>> implementation?
> 
> This is by design, there are two places:
> 
> /usr/local/share/poudriere/testport.sh
> 
> and
> 
> /usr/local/share/poudriere/bulk.sh
> 
> where TRYBROKEN=yes is exported, so that /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk
> starts the build anyway.
> 
> When I try to debug if I use BROKEN in the right manner,
> I edited the testport.sh or bulk.sh script not to set TRYBROKEN 8-}
> 

Thank you, Kurt.

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 827 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
URL: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/attachments/20151213/1da43b51/attachment.sig>


More information about the freebsd-ports mailing list