Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 17:59:36 +0100 From: Stefan Ehmann <shoesoft@gmx.net> To: Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: poudriere: reduce the number of rebuilt packages? Message-ID: <54B3FD78.5060404@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <F8F2C00190BADAE1AA7CFEF8@atuin.in.mat.cc> References: <54A67B1A.5060007@gmx.net> <54A97748.9000401@gmx.net> <F8F2C00190BADAE1AA7CFEF8@atuin.in.mat.cc>
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On 12.01.2015 01:27, Mathieu Arnold wrote: > +--On 4 janvier 2015 18:24:24 +0100 Stefan Ehmann <shoesoft@gmx.net> wrote: > | On 02.01.2015 12:03, Stefan Ehmann wrote: > |> I've recently switched from portmaster to poudriere/'pkg upgrade' to > |> manage my port updates. Basically it works fine, but incremental builds > |> don't quite work as I expected. > |> > |> poudriere rebuilds all packages if any dependency has changed. If there > |> are only some ports with new versions, possibly hundreds of packages are > |> rebuilt. So far it looks like I'll end up rebuilding packages like > |> libreoffice/KDE/chromium several times a week. The rebuilt packages > |> won't even be installed by 'pkg upgrade' because their version number > |> has not changed. > | > | Here's an actual example from today. > | > | There are new versions for three ports. poudriere will rebuild 70 ports, > | 67 of them will never be installed on the host. > > You can't know that. > > Say there is a shlib change in one of the updated packages, its version is > bumped, or there is a new dependency, you need to rebuild the 67 ports, and > pkg will detect and reinstall them. I remember one instance where a library change was detected (Can't remember which package was affected). The package was re-installed although the version number did not change. But like 99% of the time packages without version bump will not be installed. One could argue that the version number should have been bumped in the other case. I understand that conservative rebuilding is important for the official pkg repo. But it would be nice to have a poudriere option to avoid rebuilds of ports without version bumps. If something should go horribly wrong every now and then, you can still fall back to the default rebuild behavior. I think it should be possibly provided that port versions are bumped correctly. But maybe I'm wrong.
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