From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 30 23:39:24 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F362216A4BF for ; Sat, 30 Aug 2003 23:39:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pd4mo1so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92C3743FE0 for ; Sat, 30 Aug 2003 23:39:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk) Received: from pd2mr3so.prod.shaw.ca (pd2mr3so-ser.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.108])2003)) with ESMTP id <0HKH0026Y0T9RN@l-daemon> for stable@freebsd.org; Sun, 31 Aug 2003 00:31:57 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml8so.prod.shaw.ca (pn2ml8so-qfe0.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.121.152]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.16 (built May 14 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HKH00MCF0T9BO@l-daemon> for stable@freebsd.org; Sun, 31 Aug 2003 00:31:57 -0600 (MDT) Received: from piii600.wadham.ox.ac.uk (h24-87-233-42.vc.shawcable.net [24.87.233.42]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.16 (built May 14 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HKH00E1B0T67G@l-daemon> for stable@freebsd.org; Sun, 31 Aug 2003 00:31:57 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 23:31:50 -0700 From: Colin Percival In-reply-to: <200308302249.03680.wes@softweyr.com> X-Sender: cperciva@popserver.sfu.ca To: Wes Peters , Brett Glass , Colin Percival , stable@freebsd.org Message-id: <5.0.2.1.1.20030830232836.02e85978@popserver.sfu.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <4.3.2.7.2.20030828202159.0306e7f0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030828133145.0313d860@localhost> <200308280638.AAA19221@lariat.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20030828202159.0306e7f0@localhost> Subject: Re: Need to build some systems this week. Snapshots? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 06:39:24 -0000 At 22:49 30/08/2003 -0700, Wes Peters wrote: >Now, if you want to discuss a way for the ports builders to say "Wow, >that seemed like a pretty good one!" when bento builds somewhere north >of 90% of the packages, so they push a button and produce a snapshot, >that's a least a possibility. That will never handle the awful morass >of dependencies on complicated packages like GNOME or KDE applications, >but it MIGHT produce occasional snapshots of some use to some people. Can someone explain to me why it would be necessary to build *snapshots* of the ports tree? Why can't packages just be rebuilt when they change -- the way portupgrade does? I get the feeling that I'm missing something obvious here... Colin Percival