Re: broken packages for 2012Q3

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

On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 11:23:46PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 10:30:32PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
>  > I see that the TNF package builders have PKG_DEVELOPER=yes. They should
>  > probably not. AFAIK the goal of these systems is to produce binary 
> packages,
>  > not to debug pkgsrc. Also this may partially explain why they're so slow
>  > building packages.
> 
> It doesn't do any good to produce broken binary packages, though.
> Maybe some of the PKG_DEVELOPER checks should be moved out of
> PKG_DEVELOPER. Particularly the PLIST check, at least when using
> destdir builds.

The PLIST check is relatively cheap with DESTDIR builds. It only touches
inodes, that would be needed in the next step (packaging) anyway. If
that creates a significant amount of IO, kern.maxvnodes should be
raised.

Joerg