From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Feb 11 22: 0:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from squall.waterspout.com (squall.waterspout.com [208.13.56.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0863337B400; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 22:00:09 -0800 (PST) Received: by squall.waterspout.com (Postfix, from userid 1050) id D2D249B08; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 00:56:58 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 00:56:58 -0500 From: Will Andrews To: Doug Barton Cc: Will Andrews , ports@FreeBSD.org, portmgr@FreeBSD.org, root@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: portbuild script failure? [was Re: Package building delay?] Message-ID: <20020212055658.GN82640@squall.waterspout.com> Mail-Followup-To: Doug Barton , Will Andrews , ports@FreeBSD.org, portmgr@FreeBSD.org, root@FreeBSD.org References: <20020210165942.GM82640@squall.waterspout.com> <20020211214839.U18729-100000@master.gorean.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020211214839.U18729-100000@master.gorean.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.26i Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 09:50:22PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > Ok. Meanwhile, who's going to write the process monitoring script > that gives off an alarm if the process dies for a week at a time? : ) I'll We have some process monitoring already, but it's not very good about handling this sort of problem. > be glad to help if need be. Also, I think that only uploading the packages Sure. See ports/Tools/portbuild. > once a week is probably not often enough. Is the problem manpower? It's more than often enough. The problem is bandwidth -- you're asking us to upload *5+ GB* of data at once. That's just too much for mirrors to sync more than once a week. People who desire the absolute latest versions can consult directly with bento, or better yet, the ports tree. regards -- wca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message