Re: dependancies and bulk builds

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 07:58:09PM +0300, Aleksey Cheusov wrote:
>  >> > really usefull.
>  >> 
>  >> Only packages affected by security fixes can be rebuild in this case.
>  >> pbulk can do this.
> 
> > How ?
> 
> pbulk.conf:
>   limited_list=...
> 
> At least it worked months ago when I used pbulk.
> 
> There are lots of ways to get a list packages changed since the last
> bulk build including pkg_update_src_summary/pkg_src_summary + pkg_cmp_summary.
> 
> Of course security fixes should NOT change ABI/API.

So I have to compute the list by hand. Any idea if it can be automated
in some way ?

> 
>  >> The only problem I see is the correct updating of
>  >> pkg_summary(5). If nothing changed since pkg/37539 pbulk just cannot
>  >> do this.
> 
> > I think a cron rebuilds pkg_sumary on ftp anyway ...
> Is this documented/promised anywhere?

I don't know but I did notice it. I see the file's date changed although I 
didn't upload anything.


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