Malcolm Herbert wrote:
> 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.

My update script uses pkg_comp to do the actual building. Before 
invoking pkg_comp, old binary packages are removed. The setup 
instructions include configuring pkg_comp appropriately to use binary 
packages where available.

http://www.coolfactor.org/~gavan/update/

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