Re: pbulk parallel builds

["Johnny C. Lam" <jlam%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Jun 03, 2017 at 07:20:45PM -0500, Jason Bacon wrote:
> 
> Is it possible for pbulk to build multiple packages simultaneously on the
> same machine?
> 
> Right now I'm using MAKE_JOBS to utilize all available cores for individual
> builds where possible, but that still leaves a lot of resources idle where
> MAKE_JOBS cannot be used.
> 
> I've thought about using a trick such as
> 
> build_clients="localhost localhost localhost ..."
> 
> along with MAKE_JOBS=1
> 
> but as I'm building in a chroot env, I think I'd have to forward ssh
> connections into the chroot somehow.
> 
> Seems like there should be a more elegant way to utilize all the cores on a
> modern server.

This is a few years old, but the information is still relevant:

https://www.perkin.org.uk/posts/distributed-chrooted-pkgsrc-bulk-builds.html

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Johnny C. Lam
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