not trying to rebuild failled ports ?

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

On Tue, 13 May 2008 09:21:49 -0400
Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 10:50 +0300, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > 
> > I'm running an exp build on one of my tindys. I have to build all ports.
> > 
> > I'm building them like:
> > ./tc addPort -b ${_build} -r -d ${PORT} -o
> > ./tinderbuild -noduds  -nullfs -plistcheck -b ${_build} ${PORT}
> > 
> > I'd like two things:
> > - not to rebuild ports already build OK (I guess I can check this from
> > my build script be interrogating the database and skip the port if it
> > was built OK)
> > - have tindy not trying to rebuild ports that already failed: if the
> > port was already tried before (either via ./tinderbuild or as a
> > dependency of an other port) I don't want tindy to loose time trying to
> > rebuild it since it will fail for sure.
> > 
> > Any way to achieve this ?
> 
> I assume if there were a getPortLastBuiltStatus function for tc, you
> would have what you need?

That would be obviously OK for 1, but how would it help me for 2?

If A and B depends on X, it tried to build A and failed because of X,
then I don't want it to try again for either ./tinderbuild X or when
trying to build B. Am I missing something?


Thanks,

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