From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 10 03:35:59 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8110B16A4CE for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 03:35:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from gw.pelleg.org (gw.pelleg.org [205.201.13.235]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01C3843D31 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 03:35:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from daniel+bsd@pelleg.org) Received: from lank.here (lank.wburn [192.168.3.41]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (Client CN "gw.pelleg.org", Issuer "Dan Pelleg" (verified OK)) by gw.pelleg.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0679559EE; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 06:35:56 -0500 (EST) Received: by lank.here (Postfix, from userid 7675) id 1C554334; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 06:35:49 -0500 (EST) To: Kris Kennaway References: <20040310110526.GA94997@xor.obsecurity.org> From: Dan Pelleg Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 06:35:48 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20040310110526.GA94997@xor.obsecurity.org> (Kris Kennaway's message of "Wed, 10 Mar 2004 03:05:26 -0800") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley, berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: Gerard Seibert cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Compiling Packages X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 11:35:59 -0000 Kris Kennaway writes: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 05:44:14AM -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote: >> A few days ago, I posted that packages are not as current as ports are on >> FreeBSD. When I made that statement, someone, I forget whom, claimed that >> they need more machines to compile the code and wanted to know if I wanted >> to donate, or words to that affect. >> >> In any case, would that refer to donating an actual computer, or simply >> donating computer time? I have three computers, only one running FreeBSD >> at this time. I certainly am not going to give away any of my computers, >> but I would be willing to share time on one of them if that would help. > > What would be useful is multiple (e.g. at least half a dozen) fast > machines with good network connectivity. Individual machines aren't > much help, I'm afraid. Thanks for the offer though. > Just a thought - a distcc based system should be able to take advantage of such offers. (No, I'm not volunteering to set one up). -- Dan Pelleg