Re: broken packages for 2012Q3

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 10:30:32PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 10:19:00PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 01:14:43PM -0700, Jeff Rizzo wrote:
> > > On 9/29/12 12:52 PM, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > > >On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 12:48:14PM -0700, Jeff Rizzo wrote:
> > > >>But it *is* a big deal, because the package isn't building.  Hence,
> > > >>we may not have an easy path to Xen when 6.0 releases.
> > > >How does this prevent the package from building ? I installed xen*41 from
> > > >pkgsrc-current a few days ago, and I didn't have problems.
> > > >
> > > 
> > > It's failing on all pkgsrc bulk builds since 2012Q2 was cut, so at
> > > least there won't be binary pkgs available.  Someone suggested to me
> > > to remove PKG_DEVELOPER=yes to work around it, but that doesn't seem
> > > to have fixed anything, at least in my builds.
> > 
> > I don't have this problem. I'll double-check that my pkgsrc is up to date,
> > but I guess you still have PKG_DEVELOPER defined somewhere.
> 
> I see that the TNF package builders have PKG_DEVELOPER=yes. They should
> probably not. AFAIK the goal of these systems is to produce binary packages,
> not to debug pkgsrc. Also this may partially explain why they're so slow
> building packages.

Yes, they should. The goal is to produce *working* binary packages.
The overhead of PKG_DEVELOPER is quite low, so please don't spread any
FUD.

Joerg