Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 16:06:45 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami) Cc: mike@smith.net.au, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: build machines (Re: Who built XFree86 with Kerberos?) Message-ID: <199811110006.QAA01634@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 10 Nov 1998 16:02:46 PST." <199811110002.QAA12804@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
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> * > That means we are going to mount this partition from other machines > * > while doing builds, right? Do we trust our NFS that much? > * > * Should do. If we find out we're wrong, then we better get it fixed, > * hmm? > > We better, yes. Whether we can, that's another story. (Who was that > (Garrett?) that said something about willingness and ability....) > > However, I would rather not have our package building-ability hinge on > a known-to-be-flaky subsystem. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the > problems with NFS has not been exactly solved, right? No, not all of them have been solved. However many of them have, and it's worth at least *attempting* to deploy a subsystem we expect our customers to use. If it backfires, and we can't resolve the issue, then we can redistribute things. In the interim, I think this is worth trying. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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