Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 11:17:36 +0300 From: Panagiotis Astithas <past@ebs.gr> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: fbsd@a1poweruser.com, ports@freebsd.org, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle. Message-ID: <44683920.2020402@ebs.gr> In-Reply-To: <20060515041242.GA30666@soaustin.net> References: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGIEPBHGAA.fbsd@a1poweruser.com> <44670ED7.7050602@ebs.gr> <20060515041242.GA30666@soaustin.net>
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Mark Linimon wrote: > On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 02:04:55PM +0300, Panagiotis Astithas wrote: >> I believe that one solution to the scalability problem of creating and >> maintaining updated packages, would be to decentralize it more. Each >> time I submit an update for one of the ports I maintain, I've already >> build the relevant packages, as a QA measure. There should be no need to >> wait for the ports cluster to build the official version, instead of >> using my own, modulo perhaps the higher quality assurance you'd get from >> Kris's build infrastructure. > > You have built the package for one build environment (buildenv). There > are 12. See http://portsmon.freebsd.org/portsoverall.py. Quite right. But I think that would still be helpful to the majority of users (of packages). If a maintainer can't build a package for a particular build environment due to lack of resources, we can always use the regular cluster builds for these architectures. We just gained a more timely release of the most wanted package(s), no? Frankly, the availability of up-to-date packages is the only issue from this thread I really care about. I've been contemplating about graphical package installers for FreeBSD for some time and most ideas fall short since there would not be much point in using a package installer without... er... packages :-) Regards, Panagiotis
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