Tinderbox question...

[Chris Rees]

On 2 April 2011 09:26, Ivan Klymenko <fidaj at ukr.net> wrote:
> Hi, folks!
>
> For example, i built in my tinderbox port audio/clementine-player...
> It depends on qt4 -* ports...
>
> For example, the file qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.7.2.tar.gz must be
> downloaded (if not mistaken) for more than five times! Why?
>
> File size ~208655K => 5*208655K=1043275K !!!
>
> When building ports with these files it is extremely slow and not
> optimal.
>
> Is it possible to transfer the function cleandistfiles to another
> place, that would be cleaning distfiles directory took place after the
> construction of the entire queue, or do it manually?
>
> What do you think about this?
>
> Thank you!
> Best regards, Ivan.
>

Distfiles aren't cached by default.

http://tinderbox.marcuscom.com/README/README.html#AEN587

Chris