Re: bulk-medium completely broken for at least a year

[nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 11:23:54AM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 08:59:55AM +0000, nia wrote:
> > I always took this as "fine" because I saw that it only matters that
> > the dependencies build, not that the meta-package itself manages
> > to get installed, since it's not supposed to be installed directly.
> 
> Sorry, but that doesn't make sense to me.  In a bulk build, all the
> packages are built anyway. This way you'll always just see that
> bulk-medium is broken with no details if there is an actual problem
> because one of the dependencies has an issue or not.
>  Thomas

You can see the stage it failed at. Additionally, the purpose of
bulk-medium is to enable running limited bulk builds on platforms
where the scan process of a full bulk build is too expensive
to be reasonable, or where pkgsrc is new and needs testing -
although it hasn't been used much recently, I recall the last time
it was used like this was when someone else was doing legacy darwin
builds.

We can fix it though. Specifically in cases where it's building
multiple versions of the same package, we can look towards user
preferences.

One long standing issue is that bulk-small builds an old version
of emacs without x11, then one of the bigger bulk- packages builds
a newer version of emacs with x11.

AFAIK this was "by design", but means they've never been installable.