BROKEN vs. IGNORE [was: cvs commit: ports/devel/whups Makefile]

[Kris Kennaway]

On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 12:32:58PM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 05:15, Oliver Eikemeier wrote:
> > Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > 
> > > kris        2004/02/17 19:50:35 PST
> > > 
> > >   FreeBSD ports repository
> > > 
> > >   Modified files:
> > >     devel/whups          Makefile 
> > >   Log:
> > >   Change BROKEN to IGNORE since the package still builds (but does not work)
> > 
> > Are there any rules when to use BROKEN and when to use IGNORE?
> > 
> >   <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2004-March/010340.html>
> 
> Basically, ports marked BROKEN will attempted to be built by bento where
> as ports marked IGNORE will not be.  If it's a transient build issue,
> mark it as BROKEN so that the errors will still show up on bento, and
> given people something to look at when fixing.  However, if the port
> will _never_ build in a given environment, or builds but fails to run,
> then mark IGNORE.

...or if it does something sufficiently bad while building, like
sitting in an infinite loop emitting text (which generates those 256MB
logfiles you sometimes see).

Kris
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