Re: broken packages for 2012Q3

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

On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 09:18:05AM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> 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.

that's not what's causing most of the I/O; I suspect there are
checks that look at the content of files, and this is what can be
expensive.

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