Re: How long do main commits take to reach the repos? [Was: Re: git: 70b4957fa52b - main - multimedia/plexmediaserver-plexpass: Update to 1.32.4.7195]

On 2023-06-26 21:12, Jan Beich wrote:
> list_freebsd@bluerosetech.com writes:
> 
>> multimedia/plexmediaserver_plexpass was updated to 1.32.4.7195 on the
>> 18th (8 days ago, see qutoed below), but the public repo still has
>> 1.32.4.7164.  I checked that I'm using /latest, and that a git pull
>> shows the commit.  Normally updates to this port go live pretty
>> quickly since it's a NO_BUILD=yes.  Is there something stalling the
>> repo updates?
> 
> Here's my observation based on public data:
> - some poudriere hosts are slow e.g., beefy6 exceeds timeout on www/chromium
> - after a build has completed it may take some time to sync mirrors
> - packages are always built as a set to avoid ABI mismatch
> - all packages are force-rebuilt on OS updates[1]
> - incremental builds excessively obsolete existing packages[2]
> - each build starts on Tue/Thu/Sat/Sun at 01:00 UTC
> - if the previous build didn't finish yet the next one is skipped
> 
> To check:
> 1. Open https://pkg-status.freebsd.org/?all=1&type=package
> 2. Type desired major version + architecture in Search field e.g., 131amd64
> 3. Look at Build column and check if the ports commit contains the desired update
> 4. Confirm Status column is stopped:done
> 5. Calculate Started + Elapsed (or check timestamp in the last log)
> 6. Add up to 2 days to sync mirrors depending on how many packages were built
> 
> For example, 43e248a61351 is probably still syncing mirrors after rebuilding
> everything caused by the recent security fixes in base system. 1.32.4.7195
> landed on 2023-06-18 (Sunday), *after* another build has started that ended up
> skipping 2023-06-20 (Tuesday) build due to ~1 hour overlap.
> 
> [1] Precaution against ABI changes on -CURRENT (via __FreeBSD_version bumps) and
>      secfixes on -RELEASEs that may affect headers, static libraries, toolchain, etc.
> [2] Precaution against PORTREVISION underbumping, obsoleted by shlib_require in pkg(8)
>      See also https://github.com/freebsd/poudriere/issues/822
> 

This is very informative, thank you.  It looks like it was just odd 
timing this time around.