Re: pkgsrc locking is still broken!

["Loic Hoguin" <essen%dev-extend.eu@localhost>]

On Fri, 11 May 2007 11:21:47 +0200, Raymond Meyer  
<raymond.meyer%rambler.ru@localhost> wrote:

> On Fri, 11 May 2007 10:40:41 +0200
> Roland Illig <rillig%NetBSD.org@localhost> wrote:
>
> > $ cd pkgsrc/x11/gtk2
> > $ make help topic=locking
> > $ make help topic=wrkdir_locktype
> >
> > (The recommended setting for WRKDIR_LOCKTYPE is "once", not "sleep".)
> >
> > Roland
>
> I set PKGSRC_LOCKTYPE=sleep because I don't want one of the processes to  
> exit.
> If multiple processes try to build the same package, they will acquire a  
> lock
> and sleep until the package has been built, then they should continue  
> building
> any dependant packages. Well that's the theory.

That's what I said about one or two month ago, but I was pointed to other
ways to use my processing power to its limit without having to build two
packages in the same time (with MAKE_JOBS>1 and a list of package to build
processed by a for loop).

In any case, I think this option should be fixed or removed, because more
people will encounter these problems eventually.

Regards,

--
Loïc Hoguin
Dev:Extend