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Date:      Sat, 20 Mar 2004 16:27:15 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
Cc:        Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com>
Subject:   Re: BROKEN vs. IGNORE [was: cvs commit: ports/devel/whups Makefile]
Message-ID:  <20040321002715.GC40898@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <1079717578.780.7.camel@gyros>
References:  <200402180350.i1I3oZtv045855@repoman.freebsd.org> <405AC85C.1070001@fillmore-labs.com> <1079717578.780.7.camel@gyros>

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On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 12:32:58PM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 05:15, Oliver Eikemeier wrote:
> > Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >=20
> > > kris        2004/02/17 19:50:35 PST
> > >=20
> > >   FreeBSD ports repository
> > >=20
> > >   Modified files:
> > >     devel/whups          Makefile=20
> > >   Log:
> > >   Change BROKEN to IGNORE since the package still builds (but does no=
t work)
> >=20
> > Are there any rules when to use BROKEN and when to use IGNORE?
> >=20
> >   <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2004-March/010340.h=
tml>
>=20
> Basically, ports marked BROKEN will attempted to be built by bento where
> as ports marked IGNORE will not be.  If it's a transient build issue,
> mark it as BROKEN so that the errors will still show up on bento, and
> given people something to look at when fixing.  However, if the port
> will _never_ build in a given environment, or builds but fails to run,
> then mark IGNORE.

=2E..or if it does something sufficiently bad while building, like
sitting in an infinite loop emitting text (which generates those 256MB
logfiles you sometimes see).

Kris

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