Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 21:54:51 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami) Cc: sprice@hiwaay.net, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, msmith@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: auto ports build script Message-ID: <199811110554.VAA00651@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 10 Nov 1998 18:46:52 PST." <199811110246.SAA13193@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
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> * Howdy guys, > > I'm moving this to ports as this is not really at a release > engineering state. I'm copying msmith since I'm not sure if he's on > the ports list. Nope. Thanks for the cc:. > How about something like this? > > Ingredients: > > (i) A tarball that contains an extracted bindist, tweaked /etc and > whatever others (like share/info/dir) that are needed, plus portcheckout What this *screams* out for is unionfs. > (ii) A package of XFree86-3.3.2, but stripped down so it includes only the > minimum required for building other stuff (lib/lib*, bin/imake, > lib/X11/config, etc.) Don't be stingy about space, and wherever possible, don't vary from what people are "normally" going to have. > For speeding up (2), one thing we my want to do is to add an > "uncompressed" package type to pkg_*. Those packages should be much > faster to pkg_add. (They will also be faster to build, but that has > to be done sooner or later so it doesn't help the overall time.) If it's a real issue, try a "pick'n'place" approach, where everyting on the packing list gets picked up and transferred into an individual temporary subtree, where a batch process can come compress it later. This'll translate well as we move to the new package format too. > I wish I can use the space we have here at school for this, we have 20 > FreeBSD machines with lots of disks (but they are nearly full). Maybe > I'll talk to my professor to make this our next research topic after > we find a way to move that data elsewhere. :) Don't stress about space or computrons; that's for me and Jordan to worry about - you need to tell us what you need, and then get it done. -- \\ 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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