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From: linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon)
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Subject: Re: How often do pointyhat do a build?
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On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 02:42:56PM -0700, Xin LI wrote:
> To make it short - how often pointyhat would do a full build?

A full (from scratch, with latest src changes) build is not done very often.
We guarantee we do it before release time; there are other times, as well,
(at least on i386/amd64).

> long should I consider a change (API addition) made on -HEAD be "safe"
> (does not cause compiling problems) for MFC into -STABLE branches?

Please let portmgr know if we need to update the package machines to the
latest -CURRENT to look for fallout.

An incremental build on amd64 takes 2-3 days, i386 4-5 day, sparc64 a
couple of weeks.  A full build can take twice that.  The following URL
will give you an idea of what the current build state is:

http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/packagestats.html

mcl