Idea for next portupgrade
Robert Huff
roberthuff at rcn.com
Thu Jul 3 13:57:06 UTC 2008
Sergey Matveychuk writes:
> > If portupgrade can calculate the depency and launch many ports
> > build in same time for non-depending ports it's can be
> > wonderful.
>
> I'm sure it's a good idea. I'd use it too. But I have a very
> little free time with my current employment. So I can't implement
> it. Sorry.
It is also my understanding that ruby (used to manage the
ports database) a) is not re-entrant and/or b) does not lock the
files it is using/changing. Having two instances running at once
causes Bad Things(tm) to happen.
Robert Huff
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