Re: [gentoo-ppc-dev] Automated keyword generation

[Lloyd D Budd]

build does not imply work.


On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 17:01, Wes Morgan wrote:
> I'm kind of a Gentoo n00b, though not a Linux n00b, so pardon any stupidity
> contained herein... ;-)
>
> Has anyone ever considered/implemented an automated build success report
> system? So that if I, for instance, successfully merged an ebuild w/ no ppc
> or ~ppc keyword, this utility could phone home and record my success. Then
> maybe that could automatically mark that package with a ~ppc keyword, then if
> enough success reports came in while it was marked ~ppc (and maybe it could
> be balanced against failure reports), it could automatically get marked ppc
> one day.
>
> The reason I ask this is that it seems that there are an awful lot of packages
> that don't have a ppc or ~ppc keyword, making Gentoo/PPC a lot less useful
> for the faint of heart (or the faint of butt) than Gentoo/x86. I was able to
> successfully merge koffice-1.3_rc1 on my TiBook 500, and I imagine there are
> plenty of other packages out there that would build successfully too, and
> probably have been built successfully, but not reported. I reported my
> success to this list, but received (as of yet) no response. It's only been a
> couple days, so that's not a complaint from me; I'm just trying to point out
> that an automated system would have already put a ~ppc keyword on this
> ebuild. :)
>
> Regardless of whether I have a good idea here or a terribly stupid one, I'd be
> really interested to learn more about the process of getting ppc and ~ppc
> keywords added to packages, and how I can best help increase the number of
> them.
>
> Thanks for a really cool distro,
> Wes Morgan
>
>
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