[89740] trunk/dports/textproc/libxml2/Portfile

[Joshua Root]

On 2012-2-9 17:50 , Marko Käning wrote:
> *I think it would be a great feature if one could perhaps send a
> Portfile + files directory as a tbz2 or so to the buildbot. There the
> buildbot then would unpack it and act on it as if it had checked it out
> from the MP SVN tree. This way one could do tests on the buildbot
> without affecting anyone's installation.*
> 
> /Shall I file a feature request on MP's trac for this?/
> 
> Alternatively one could think about an option in the BB's web interface
> which would trigger a deletion of the currently saved binaries of a
> certain port. That would enable the maintainer to commit changes to a
> port without increasing the version or revision and test stuff. Still,
> MP users installing the port in question anew would certainly install
> the latest version. So, it's more a workaround, I know...

I think what you actually want is pretty close to a Try scheduler:

<http://buildbot.net/buildbot/docs/current/manual/cfg-schedulers.html#try-schedulers>

If it uninstalls any newly created archives after the build, that should
mean everything is back the way it was.

You can file a ticket if you want, but I don't know if that will
actually make it happen any faster. :-)

- Josh