Subject: Re: utilizing SMP machines
To: None <garbled@netbsd.org>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 11/28/2000 12:25:27
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On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 09:01:28PM -0700, Tim Rightnour wrote:

> What he is saying, and, what I have seen in the past.. is that if you sta=
rt two
> builds of different packages at the same time, sometimes they end up need=
ing
> the same dependency, and run into it at roughly the same time. And really=
 fun
> things happen when one does a make configure while the other is still
> extracting..  What usually ends up happening is that the two builds stomp=
 on
> eachother, and both error out in some way.

Worse... I don't want to test what happens when two unrelated packages
try to register themselfs into /var/db. At least, with the former
scenario, you can restart the build sequentially, but with a hosed installe=
d=20
package database...

	-is

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