Stale pkg repo?

[Kevin Oberman]

On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 10:56 PM Greg Rivers <gcr+freebsd-ports at tharned.org>
wrote:

> On Saturday, 12 December 2020 00:10:04 CST Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > A pkg build in 121amd64 latest was completed on 7-Dec after running for
> > over 90 hours and another on 10-Dec that took a more typical 48 hours
> > build. FWIW, gtk3 is hardly a big package. Try chromium, rust, llvm* or
> > libreoffice. I've seen cases when multiple of these monsters are included
> > in a single build of packages for amd64. My last chromium build took over
> > 13 hours on my build system.
> >
> I have observed similar times. From the spot checks I've done, a full
> build of all packages averages between 50 and 60 hours.
>
> > The pointis that 12.1 latest for amd64 has completed two big builds with
> > the distribution system net getting the updated packages.
> >
> Which brings us back to my original point (for 12.1amd64/latest
> specifically). Why have the repos still not caught up with the builds? If
> rsync is proving unreliable, perhaps switching to replicating via
> incremental ZFS send/receive would be better? Can anyone in the know give
> an ETA on fixing the immediate problem?
>
> --
> Greg
>

The build of 121amd64 latest run started on 2-Dec ran for over 90 hours.
That is the longest I've seen, but there may be longer cases.
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