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Date:      Sat, 16 Jul 2005 13:26:11 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Mikhail Teterin <mi+kde@aldan.algebra.com>
Cc:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>, Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com>, Michael Nottebrock <lofi@freebsd.org>, cvs-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org, pav@freebsd.org, cvs-ports@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net>
Subject:   Re: cluster vs. PORTREVISION (Re: cvs commit: ports/graphics/djvulibre...)
Message-ID:  <20050716172611.GA29002@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <200507161007.06427@aldan>
References:  <200507132352.j6DNqtUS011697@repoman.freebsd.org> <200507151751.30130.lofi@freebsd.org> <20050716053608.GA10863@xor.obsecurity.org> <200507161007.06427@aldan>

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On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 10:07:05AM -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> On Saturday 16 July 2005 01:36 am, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> =3D The cluster does mind, because I do not have enough machines to waste
> =3D cycles on gratuitous rebuilds. ?Also, the FTP sites mind when the
> =3D waste bandwidth on gratuitous downloads.
>=20
> But the package-building scripts _can_ be modified to track dependencies
> without relying on PORTREVISION, cat they not? And portupgrade does not
> need the variable either.

They detect changes in the list of dependencies, since that data is
available in INDEX.

> Also, for releases you do a full rebuild from scratch anyway too, right?

Yes, but that's a completely secondary use for the cluster since
releases are infrequent events.

Kris

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