The easiest way to track build failures is to receive
the emailed logs and sort them to a folder, so you can maintain a
running list of current failures and detect new ones easily.
To do this, add an email address to
${branch}/portbuild.conf
After a port appears broken on every build combination
multiple times, it is time to mark it BROKEN.
Two weeks' notification for the maintainers seems fair.
To avoid build errors with ports that need to be manually
fetched, put the distfiles into
~ftp/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles.
Access restrictions are in place to make sure that only the
build clients can access this directory.
This, and other documents, can be downloaded from ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/
For questions about FreeBSD, read the
documentation before
contacting <questions@FreeBSD.org>.
For questions about this documentation, e-mail <doc@FreeBSD.org>.