Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 21:50:22 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> To: Will Andrews <will@csociety.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, <portmgr@FreeBSD.org>, <root@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: portbuild script failure? [was Re: Package building delay?] Message-ID: <20020211214839.U18729-100000@master.gorean.org> In-Reply-To: <20020210165942.GM82640@squall.waterspout.com>
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On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Will Andrews wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 11:34:22PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
> > I upgraded the htdig port 5 days ago, still don't see a new
> > package. I remember vaguely that there were "issues" with package
> > building, but I don't remember the delay being this long. Can anyone give
> > me some insight? The linux guys announced new rpm's a day or two after the
> > new version was released, I'm starting to feel a little inadequate. :)
>
> The packages are (usually) built once a day, then uploaded to
> ftp-master about once a week. I see, however, that apparently
> the cron job for running the package builds has been dead since
> February 4. Unfortunately there is nothing I can do about that.
> Seems one of the scripts up and shot itself in the knees and
> needs a root person to fix.
Ok. Meanwhile, who's going to write the process monitoring script
that gives off an alarm if the process dies for a week at a time? : ) I'll
be glad to help if need be. Also, I think that only uploading the packages
once a week is probably not often enough. Is the problem manpower?
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