Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 19:50:21 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> Subject: Re: Overly restrictive checks in the make process Message-ID: <200707201950.21868.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <20070721023933.GB24593@soaustin.net> References: <20070720085855.99fb2109.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> <20070720160749.54fec301.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> <20070721023933.GB24593@soaustin.net>
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On Friday 20 July 2007, Mark Linimon wrote: > On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 04:07:49PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: > > Even better would be for make to realize that it's only doing the > > fetching, and do it anyway. > > That still doesn't help with the problem of a user who starts a 10MB > download that won't work on his architecture or OS release. The code > is all the same. This is the aggravation we are trying to prevent. > That still doesn't address the concern or improve the system downtime that a pkg_delete, make install allows. If you can't run something, you don't have any downtime but to have to pkg_delete before you start the tarball fetch can be really long on some ports. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://www.soyandina.com/ "I am Andean project". http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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