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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>
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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
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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.

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