Re: pkgsrc HEAD selective NetBSD 5.99.49/x86_64 2011-10-07 03:35

[David Holland <dholland-pkgbulk%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 12:04:12AM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote:
 > On Sat, Oct 08, 2011 at 01:53:13AM +0000, David Holland wrote:
 > > So for the record, this is a limited build done only on (1) packages
 > > that are known to fail, and (2) packages that have been substantively
 > > changed since they last built ok. The point of this is to get rapid
 > > turnaround on new commits; it's intended to complement, not replace,
 > > full builds. In particular it won't necessarily catch cases where
 > > package Y stops building because package X gets updated.
 > 
 > That's a very good idea.
 > 
 > Can you please extend to include all packages that had commits since
 > you last ran the limited build?
 > Then packagers would get more immediate feedback about their changes.

I've been skipping updates that aren't likely to break the build (like
setting LICENSE) but as build time permits I can pull those in.

This logic is all manual at the moment and I'm not sure how long the
motivation will last. All commits is definitely easier to automate...

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David A. Holland
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