Re: pbulk parallel builds

["Johnny C. Lam" <jlam%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Jun 05, 2017 at 09:20:43AM +0100, Jonathan Perkin wrote:
> * On 2017-06-04 at 15:41 BST, Johnny C. Lam wrote:
> > You should commit your changes, especially as you've already been
> > using them daily for the past several months.
> 
> Joerg had issues with it and I'd prefer we sorted out a design we're
> all happy with first.  Also as I mentioned I don't actually use this
> patch myself, and am still using my previous set of patches:
> 
>   https://github.com/joyent/pkgsrc/commits/joyent/feature/pbulk/trunk?author=jperkin
> 
> which is why I'm keen for others to test this new patch as much as
> possible.  We need to be careful as automatic chroot creation and
> deletion has lots of sharp edges and can easily result in loss of data
> if things aren't configured correctly.

Can Joerg comment on what issues he had with the changes?

Regards,
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Johnny C. Lam
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