In message <20060207220413.GB24090@mjch.net>, Malcolm Herbert writes:
>I had a similar problem with my bulk build area in that I only wanted
>to compile packages which I explicitly listed, but didn't want to 
>recompile them all if I added to it.  I was told to use
>
>  DEPENDS_TARGET=bin-install
>  USE_BULK_TIMESTAMPS=no
>
>which allowed a graceful restart, but has the drawback that if you 
>update your CVS, you may find things not recompiling when they should.
>
>I intend to remove these two lines when I update my pkgsrc tree.
>

Thanks; that looks useful.  But USE_BULK_TIMESTAMPS doesn't seem to be 
documented at all; what does it do?  (I hadn't known about the
bin-install target, either; I now see that it's in pkgsrc.txt.)

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb