cvs commit: ports/graphics/djvulibre Makefile ports/textproc/wordnet Makefile

[Kris Kennaway]

On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 05:51:23PM +0200, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> On Friday, 15. July 2005 17:26, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> > Michael Nottebrock <lofi at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > >> Oh? Cluster does compile new package when PKGNAME changes.
> > >
> > > Does it really now? That's broken. The right thing would be to track file
> > > modifications timestamps ...
> >
> > Not every change makes it necessary to rebuild the package, e.g. a change
> > to MASTER_SITE does not have to result in a rebuild of the package (if the
> > package isn't there because it wasn't fetchable before, the cluster DTRT).
> 
> It would be better to err on the safe side there instead of having to bump 
> PORTREVISION for the cluster's sake. After all, the cluster doesn't mind a 
> few gratuitous rebuilds too much - ports users do, especially those with 
> slower machines.

The cluster does mind, because I do not have enough machines to waste
cycles on gratuitous rebuilds.  Also, the FTP sites mind when they
waste bandwidth on gratuitous downloads.

Kris

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