depends blacklist qa check

[Dan Langille]

> On Apr 8, 2019, at 4:38 PM, Mathieu Arnold <mat at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 01:55:19PM -0400, Dan Langille wrote:
>> re: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19562
>> 
>> I understand the purpose of the blacklist is to restrict the use of certain meta ports to end-users only.  That is, the meta-ports in question should not be used as a depends in the FreeBSD ports tree.
>> 
>> For example, do not use lang/python as a depends. Let the user install that install.
>> 
>> With my user hat on, who has a in-house meta-port which includes lang/python2 as a depends, because we want it, and list of other stuff installed.
>> 
>> We can't do that now. Our meta-port is broken and can no longer be used. Is there another way? The list appears hardcoded and no way for the end user to configure.
> 
> Well, that is not correct.  QA checks are only run when using poudriere
> testport or bulk -t, or when DEVELOPER=yes.  So, while it is true that
> such meta port will no longer pass testing, it will not impact a normal
> poudriere bulk.

That's good news.  Yes, I discovered this on a testport, while amending an in-house port.

Phew.  Sorry for the noise.  This got me completely kerfuffled.

cheers.


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