Subject: Re: rebuilding huge packages?
To: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 03/28/2003 19:55:43
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

> In message <Pine.NEB.4.30.0303290015480.29939-100000@paper.durnsford.net>, Gava
> n Fantom writes:
> >On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> >
> >> Second, there are some packages being rebuilt by the ordinary
> >> dependency system.  Is that supposed to happen?  I was expecting to see
> >> a complete list.  (Aside: it would be very nice if there were a way to
> >> do a complete fetch of everything first -- I have a decent link from
> >> home (cable modem), but my office has much better bandwidth.)
> >
> >Does make fetch-list do what you want?
>
> No, because it fetches things that aren't out of date and don't need to
> be rebuilt.

It won't generate any script for files that you already have...

Frederick