Re: Intentionally smaller pbulk builds

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%pkgsrc.org@localhost> writes:

> * On 2024-12-26 at 08:21 GMT, Thomas Klausner wrote:
>
>>Depending on what you include in your bulk build, this might
>>completely break its scan phase, if the bulk build includes a package
>>that doesn't build with Python 3.12 or PHP 8.3. In that case, you'll
>>have to check bulklog/meta/presolve for the failing package &
>>PHP/Python version, and allow that PHP/Python version, or remove the
>>package from your bulk build.
>
> Yeh, trying to do this stuff for a full build will likely result in at
> least a week of playing whack-a-mole, not including time taken to
> re-run the scan.

This is a clue that our insistence on having the bulk build completely
fail if there are scan errors is not a reasonable strategy.   Packages
that can't find deps should just be marked failed (with some new token,
perhaps), and what can be done should be done.