ports with leftovers

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

Peter Boosten wrote:
> 
> Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
>> Peter Boosten wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Are "ports with leftovers" a bad thing, or what? Anything I can do about
>>> that?
>> Yes.  Tinderbox doesn't error out on leftovers by default.  However,
>> pointyhat will.  Leftovers indicate improper package lists, and must be
>> addressed before your port will be generally available as a package.
>>
>> Joe
>>
> 
> Hey Joe,
> 
> Thanks for your answer. What's a pointyhat? Although the mail claims the
>  building of the package failed, I still can download it from the
> repository.

Pointyhat is the official FreeBSD build cluster.  It is responsible for
building all of the official FreeBSD packages (e.g. for release
purposes).  It will not build packages which have leftovers.  Tinderbox
can be made to do that same by starting tinderbuild with the -plistcheck
argument.

Joe

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