Subject: Re: Why pkgsrc "sucks"
To: Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv84@gmail.com>
From: Pavel Cahyna <pcah8322@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 09/03/2005 23:17:11
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 11:12:55PM +0200, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
> On 9/3/05, Pavel Cahyna <cahyna@pc313.imc.cas.cz> wrote:
> > On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 09:07:27 -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> > 
> > >   * Pkgsrc provides a bulk build framework for building multiple (or
> > >   all)
> > >     packages.
> > 
> > Does the bulk build framework allow incremental compiling of only
> > those packages that have changed?
> 
> It's explicitly designed to do that.

Interesting. How is it achieved? By examining timestamps on package
Makefiles and rebuilding only those packages whose Makefiles changed more
recently than corresponding binary packages?

Bye	Pavel