Re: Confused about bulk build report

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost>]

* On 2014-05-24 at 19:02 BST, David Holland wrote:

> On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 05:07:18PM +0000, John Klos wrote:
>  > NetBSD 6.1.4, macppc, 2014Q1 pkgsrc. I don't understand perl...
>  > [...]
>  > build> Generating the bulk build report...
>  > syntax error at mk/bulk/post-build line 239, near "$f qw(BULK_DBFILE
>  > DEPENDSTREEFILE DEPENDSFILE SUPPORTSFILE INDEXFILE ORDERFILE)"
>  > Global symbol "$f" requires explicit package name at mk/bulk/post-build
>  > line 240.
>  > Global symbol "$f" requires explicit package name at mk/bulk/post-build
>  > line 241.
>  > Execution of mk/bulk/post-build aborted due to compilation errors.
>  > mk/bulk/build: error:
>  >     Could not write the results file.
>  > 
>  > 
>  > Any ideas?
> 
> "it's broke"
> 
> If you're going to run bulk builds you're probably better off using
> pbulk... the old bulk build stuff should really have been removed
> years ago but there are still a few holdouts using it.

Are there?  I don't recall seeing an old-style report sent to
pkgsrc-bulk@ for a long time now.

I was one of the last holdouts but haven't used it for a number of
years, pbulk is sufficiently mature and supports enough unique
features (e.g. distributed support) that I think we should just nuke
mk/bulk now.

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Jonathan Perkin  -  Joyent, Inc.  -  www.joyent.com