Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 01:27:14 +0100 From: Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org> To: Stefan Ehmann <shoesoft@gmx.net>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: poudriere: reduce the number of rebuilt packages? Message-ID: <F8F2C00190BADAE1AA7CFEF8@atuin.in.mat.cc> In-Reply-To: <54A97748.9000401@gmx.net> References: <54A67B1A.5060007@gmx.net> <54A97748.9000401@gmx.net>
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+--On 4 janvier 2015 18:24:24 +0100 Stefan Ehmann <shoesoft@gmx.net> wrote: | On 02.01.2015 12:03, Stefan Ehmann wrote: |> I've recently switched from portmaster to poudriere/'pkg upgrade' to |> manage my port updates. Basically it works fine, but incremental builds |> don't quite work as I expected. |> |> poudriere rebuilds all packages if any dependency has changed. If there |> are only some ports with new versions, possibly hundreds of packages are |> rebuilt. So far it looks like I'll end up rebuilding packages like |> libreoffice/KDE/chromium several times a week. The rebuilt packages |> won't even be installed by 'pkg upgrade' because their version number |> has not changed. | | Here's an actual example from today. | | There are new versions for three ports. poudriere will rebuild 70 ports, | 67 of them will never be installed on the host. You can't know that. Say there is a shlib change in one of the updated packages, its version is bumped, or there is a new dependency, you need to rebuild the 67 ports, and pkg will detect and reinstall them. -- Mathieu Arnold
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