Re: Running bulk builds for finding bugs in packages

["J. Lewis Muir" <jlmuir%imca-cat.org@localhost>]

On May 30, 2020, at 3:34 AM, Roland Illig <roland.illig%gmx.de@localhost> wrote:
> A few days ago, I added a section to the pkgsrc guide containing ideas
> for bulk builds with non-default configurations, to find packages that
> don't stick to the pkgsrc conventions or to best practices.
> 
> https://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/bulk.html#bulk.var
> 
> Did I miss any important build variants? Or are there any details that I
> got wrong or that should have been explained better?

Hi, Roland!

Very nice additions!  Thanks!

A few comments:

1. In the “Strict SUBST blocks” section, it talks about future improvements and development effort involving modifying mk/subst.mk.  The guide doesn’t really feel like the right place for that to me; maybe better would be in your own notes or a pkgsrc/NetBSD wiki page.  Also, in this section, I was expecting info on what variable I need to set in mk.conf to enable the strict SUBST block checks.

2. s/compilers also detects/compilers also detect/

3. s/no-op\./no-op:/

Thanks again for your excellent work on pkgsrc and pkglint!

Lewis