How often do pointyhat do a build?

[Xin LI]

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Mark Linimon wrote:
| 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

Thanks for the information.  So does it imply that pointyhat's -CURRENT
would (slightly) behind the current development?  Is there any way to
know which __FreeBSDversion the current build is running against?

Cheers,
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Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net>	http://www.delphij.net/
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