How identify and remove leftover files on buildbots?

[Marko Käning]

Hi Ryan,

On 19 Mar 2015, at 06:47 , Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
> If I remember prior threads correctly, the buildbot builders only upload
> to the packages server those packages that we are legally allowed to
> distribute, but they themselves keep and use copies of all packages for
> successful builds. And they will not attempt to rebuild a port if a
> package already exists. There is no good reason to increase the revision
> in this case, but without that, there is no way to force the buildbot to
> rebuild the port. Can you wait until the next time you need to increase
> the revision?

yes, I can do that. I’ll just update its Portfile with some notes about
this. Thanks for verifying this!


> What you currently have committed to the rkward port does not work.

Oh!


> There is no Tcl or MacPorts command "ls". ("Can't map the URL 'file://.'
> to a port description file ("invalid command name "ls"").") You can run
> the "ls" command line program inside a "system" invocation, however.

OK, will make that change. Thanks for pointing that out.

Would be really cool, if “port lint” would spot such things!!!

Greets,
Marko