Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 11:03:35 +0100 From: Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net> To: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bidwatcher port Message-ID: <20030904100335.GA25063@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10309040209320.10078-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10309040209320.10078-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>
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On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 02:18:47AM -0700, Annelise Anderson wrote:
>=20
> The bidwatcher ports seems to get updated by David O'Brien
> without any notification to this list--which is fine; I'd just thought
> if a port were changed it would show up here.
>=20
> But I write to ask for a change in the TIMEFUDGE stuff--if left
> alone a snipe will be placed five minutes before the time requested, not
> AT THE TIME you requested. Thus I always have to edit the Makefile (since
> I don't want my bid to go in five minutes in advance. It's not hard to
> change, it's just that I forget to do so and this five minute fudge seems
> to take away the very point of the program, which is to make a bid so
> late others cannot respond. So could we have the TIMEFUGDE set at 0
> rather than 300 seconds? I try to remember to edit the Makefile to do so
> but don't always remember. The program offers a range around 20 seconds,
> which is the basic idea.
Could you not simply set TIMEFUDGE=3Dx in your /etc/make.conf?
Ceri
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