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Date:      Wed, 17 May 2006 11:18:20 +0400
From:      Sergey Matveychuk <sem@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org, Paul Koch <paul.koch@statseeker.com>
Subject:   Re: Is it safe to compile multiple ports at the same time ?
Message-ID:  <446ACE3C.8090500@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060517045403.GI1113@k7.mavetju>
References:  <200605171353.37745.paul.koch@statseeker.com> <20060517045403.GI1113@k7.mavetju>

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Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 01:53:37PM +1000, Paul Koch wrote:
>> Is it safe to compile multiple ports at the same time and not get the 
>> makes to run into each other when building dependency ports ?
> 
> I once submitted a patch which checked for this. Now that I've
> learned about lockf(1) I think there is a chance a next one will
> be approved too!

I saw your patch just you submited it. And I thought it would be great
to have the locking feature.

I've not once run two or more portupgrade -R and go away and when back
found both failed because of they started build the same port.

-- 
Dixi.
Sem.



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