Re: pkg/56586: Support keeping worklog of succeeded packages in pbulk

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

On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 05:45:07PM -0800, manphiz wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 10:59 AM Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 11:55:08AM +0100, Benny Siegert wrote:
> > > Joerg, you do not have to use this option if you think it is not
> > > useful. But the submitter does have a use case for it, and a simple
> > > patch of less than 10 lines does not warrant this amount of discussion
> > > IMHO. I vote for adding the patch.
> >
> > Options have a cost. As such they have to be justified against the
> > alternatives.
> >
> > Joerg
> 
> Hi Joerg,
> 
> Understood.  Still I would suggest adding this feature as it's easier
> to use compared to your suggested alternatives, which requires:
> 
> * Knowing how to use DEPENDS_TARGET and BINPKG_SITES which are
> introduced at different places in the pkgsrc guide.
> 
> * Making sure to use the same PKG_OPTIONS for the packages of interest
> in both pbulk and pkgsrc, which if not kept the same may not trigger
> the same issue.
> 
> * Having to build it again, which means more time spent.  For me it's
> 1-2 hours for building gnupg2 itself.
> 
> If it can be done in pbulk itself by changing a single flag it can
> make life easier for pkgsrc newbies like myself.

Like I said, I can't remember a case were I didn't want to do such a
rebuild and learning how to reproduce the pbulk environment
interactively seems much more useful than a hack that you could obtain
by just commenting out the line in first place.

In other words: I can't think of a good reason for having this flag ever
set permanently in the config file and all other cases are better served
by learning how to do the above.

Joerg