Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 09:13:47 -0800 From: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> To: Gary Aitken <freebsd@dreamchaser.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: best time to sync Message-ID: <20161118171347.GE1080@albert.catwhisker.org> In-Reply-To: <552cf255-3a7f-2ea5-8401-d0218c445ece@dreamchaser.org> References: <2c878c5b-34e0-a58c-352d-b6c533b4da34@dreamchaser.org> <20161118152947.GR2648@home.opsec.eu> <552cf255-3a7f-2ea5-8401-d0218c445ece@dreamchaser.org>
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--nVrqoArjIp3ewQcx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 09:36:36AM -0700, Gary Aitken wrote: > ... > ... > >> Can someone tell me what the best time to synchronize ports is, > >> in terms of having a consistent ports tree? > ... > I'm interested in a consistent ports tree for build purposes. I want > updates, but I want the tree to be consistent enough to build. In > the past I have sync'd at less than ideal times and things did not > build as a result. I understand this is always a possibility, but > was wondering if there was a time when it was most likely consistent. > For example, is a weekly build done on the ports tree starting at a=20 > particular day and time? Daily? > .... Of the possibly-relevant things I do, the one that comes to mind is that I maintain a local private mirror of the FreeBSD SVN ports repository. (I also maintain one each for src and doc, but that's veering off-topic.) I synchronize my mirror overnight (in 2 passes -- though that's a legacy =66rom when I used CVSup, and was because of the huge amount of time spent when a new tag was laid down; with svn, that's really not an issue). In my case, the sync runs at about 03:30 hrs. US/Pacific. That done, I can make my ports working copy follow head or a quarterly branch as I see fit -- though in practice, I choose follow head. (I also update the base system frequently (daily), and follow that by updating all installed ports on the laptop I use for day-to-day use. That's probably something folks ought to think long and hard about before actually doing it: it works for me, but it's not for everyone.) And the repository is thus stable while I'm awake, which I find useful. On the other hand, if someone commits a change I need just after I synchronized for the day, well... that's awkward. Peace, david --=20 David H. Wolfskill david@catwhisker.org Ref. 08 Nov 2016, let's see if the "winners" actually deliver on their slog= ans. See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key. --nVrqoArjIp3ewQcx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQF8BAEBCgBmBQJYLzbLXxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXRDQ0I3Q0VGOTE3QTgwMUY0MzA2NEQ3N0Ix NTM5Q0M0MEEwNDlFRTE3AAoJEBU5zECgSe4X7joH/RT6mGJOZW/7k3YWlArh1vgc vgJ14gMFOa6vBwhidzrnQ7e5LVVEw/Lw+IIB3Q+ZKxxLnXSGnPkYmA8igb29aQ8o 3Qjv1R+G17ZDlZcXaUvVvqtymAqtDZvw7QfxZmPa3sSa9T3l478XRCNmVF3tnhAG MLLQiNy4oYJszpOn80aitgLswoeqdPz+yyL1lPpda3FOSqZ2m+70KGzIMyNTrmtg hlxyDx8GvsUfbNi3pCucZ4uv011IjpfGZJZhyBLea1U+SeXjpe7esBkAxP/ZnMCj EWnCKfz+29QAl1y0uv3dFv9JRulE70kXQXbkRUSlnjGoC8as1Rc7DFWtobA1aaU= =hTfG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nVrqoArjIp3ewQcx--
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