Subject: Re: rebuilding huge packages?
To: Gavan Fantom <gavan@coolfactor.org>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 03/28/2003 19:21:31
In message <Pine.NEB.4.30.0303290015480.29939-100000@paper.durnsford.net>, Gava
n Fantom writes:
>On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>
>> Second, there are some packages being rebuilt by the ordinary
>> dependency system. Is that supposed to happen? I was expecting to see
>> a complete list. (Aside: it would be very nice if there were a way to
>> do a complete fetch of everything first -- I have a decent link from
>> home (cable modem), but my office has much better bandwidth.)
>
>Does make fetch-list do what you want?
>
No, because it fetches things that aren't out of date and don't need to
be rebuilt.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
http://www.wilyhacker.com (2nd edition of "Firewalls" book)