Re: Alpha and broken packages

On 2015-07-27, Gary Lee Phillips <[email protected]> wrote:

> Do abiword, calligra, or libreoffice build successfully on Alpha?

No.  They aren't even attempted to be built.  Presumably various
dependencies already fail.

> Is there an easier way to find out which packages are "broken" other
> than by trying to build them myself?

Take a look at recent build failure logs:
http://build-failures.rhaalovely.net/alpha/

A lot of these are from the build machines themselves falling over
("Error: job failed 256"), but the actually failing ports are in
there, too.

> but it needs gtk2, which I believe was one of the broken packages I
> hit yesterday.

gtk2 should build.  There's a package for it in the latest snapshot.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          [email protected]