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New rsync server
by Ryan Schmidt 10 Aug '16

10 Aug '16

The MacPorts project is pleased to announce that our primary rsync server at rsync.macports.org is now hosted by the Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. You may already have noticed a multilingual message welcoming you to ftp.fau.de in your MacPorts logs or verbose output; this is normal. In addition, while distfiles.macports.org and packages.macports.org continue to use MaxCDN to deliver files to users from the nearest possible location, MaxCDN will now get those files from the FAU web server. These changes are transparent to users and require no changes on your part. But if you are not located in or near Germany, you may want to edit your macports.conf and sources.conf files to use a closer mirror to get faster transfer speeds when you "sudo port selfupdate" or "sudo port sync". The list of available mirrors can be found at: https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Mirrors FAU has supported MacPorts for many years already by providing a MacPorts mirror server, and we are grateful to have them now providing our primary file server.

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New build system
by Ryan Schmidt 10 Aug '16

10 Aug '16

The MacPorts project is pleased to announce the deployment of our new build system. This system automatically builds our ports on several macOS versions and, license permitting, deploys the archives to a server where MacPorts can download them. It's also useful for MacPorts developers to see if their ports build on each version of macOS. This change is transparent to users and requires no changes on your part. For those interested in the build system: This system is a rewrite of the previous build system that was deployed in 2011 and offers several improvements, including: - Instead of grouping multiple ports modified by a single commit into a single build, multiple builds are started. This lets you see the progress and logs individually for each port, and if any archives are created, they're deployed after each port is built. - If any dependencies were not yet deployed, they're deployed too. - Dependencies are installed in a separate step, so you can tell at a glance if dependencies failed or the port itself failed. - Ports using the obsolete portgroup will not be built. This avoids showing build failures for ports that are already known not to build. - Builders appear on the web site sorted in order by macOS version. - Tags are used to group builders in various ways on the console page and can be used to filter the waterfall page. More useful ways to customize the waterfall page are shown in the waterfall help page. Email notification of failed builds is not currently working. This will return in the future. More improvements to the build system are planned in the coming months. Interested MacPorts users and developers may view the new build system at: https://build.macports.org MacPorts committers who had an account on the old system may log in to the new system with the same username and password. MacPorts committers who would like an account on the new system should please send email to admin [at] macports.org. Build logs from the old system were not imported. If you need to see the log of a port on a particular version of macOS, just use the web interface to force a new build on the appropriate "portwatcher". This build system rewrite was spearheaded by the participants of the MacPorts Meeting in March 2016 -- Peter Danecek, Jackson Isaac, Clemens Lang, Dagobert Michelsen, Mojca Miklavec, Rainer Müller and Aljaž Srebrnič -- and completed over the past weeks by Clemens, Mojca, Rainer and me. My great thanks to them for improving our build system. -Ryan

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