Frequency of FreeBSD package builds

Dmitry Morozovsky marck at rinet.ru
Fri Dec 12 01:51:46 UTC 2014


Mat,

On Fri, 12 Dec 2014, Mathieu Arnold wrote:

> | Am I right supposing that each build is a full one?  What are the
> | downsides of  incremental builds which should take less than, say, 2 days
> | (if not deepest  beats like gettext updates involved)?
> 
> No, it is incremental builds, for all port versions of FreeBSD except
> CURRENT, because ABI change often, and it's safer to just rebuild
> everything everytime.

> Right now, there are two boxes, one for amd64 and one for i386, and the
> build order is the current quarterly branch for 9 and then 10, then head
> for 10, 9, CURRENT and 8.  Also, when there is a security advisory or

[snip all the very detailed explanaition]

Thank you, and all of portmanager team, very much to bring us full up-to-date 
packages besides all the whole debris you've just described! ;-P

Seriously, pretty much of work. Thank you again.


-- 
Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
[ FreeBSD committer:                                 marck at FreeBSD.org ]
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