From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Sep 5 16:35:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mail.clickarray.com (dune.clickarray.com [209.10.62.213]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E88AD37B43C; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 16:35:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail.clickarray.com (Postfix, from userid 2047) id D0E285EF0A; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 16:44:50 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 16:44:50 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: portmgr@freebsd.org Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: (forw) ports lock patch Message-ID: <20010905164450.X10474@dune.clickarray.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i X-all-your-base: are belong to us. Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org ----- Forwarded message from Alfred Perlstein ----- From: Alfred Perlstein To: Satoshi Asami Subject: ports lock patch Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 15:17:27 -0700 Message-ID: <20010905151727.T10474@dune.clickarray.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i have a look at this will you? it uses lockf to prevent multiple builds from recursing into the same port at the same time, it's really nice when doing a fresh install because you can safely build multiple ports that have the same dependancies without worrying about an explosion. http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/ports-lock.diff It would also allow you to parallelize the ports/packages building a lot better on the cluster. Shall I clean it up and commit it? -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message