Re: pkgsrc-2007Q4 NetBSD 2.1/i386 2008-01-03 13:45

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 03:15:07PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 03:00:42PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 02:46:36PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > > > PKG_DEVELOPER will make sure that the binaries are correct. It doesn't
> > > > change anything else. It *is* part of the recommented configuration for
> > > > bulk builds.
> > > 
> > > Why isn't it the default then ?
> > 
> > CHECK_PERMS will add an additional build dependency, CHECK_FILES can
> > take quite a bit when many packages are installed. I discussed with
> > Roland whether it should be made the default for BATCH though.
> 
> I'm not sure it's a good idea to add something that will slow down
> the builds even more. We already have a high latency providing binary
> updates once the fix has been pulled up to the stable branch, and most
> of the time is spent in the pkgsrc infrastructure itself.

It doesn't matter much for the bulk build as the /usr/pkg directory tree
is effectively cached. The time is proportional to the size of /usr/pkg
and that mostly scales with the build time (except for meta packages).

Joerg