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Date:      Sun, 24 May 2009 14:11:26 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Matt Juszczak <matt@atopia.net>
To:        =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Ulrich_Sp=F6rlein?= <uqs@spoerlein.net>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Make package-recursive problem
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905241410340.66921@pluto.atopia.net>
In-Reply-To: <20090524152124.GA16591@acme.spoerlein.net>
References:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905221212090.81580@pluto.atopia.net> <20090524152124.GA16591@acme.spoerlein.net>

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> I have no clue as to what is causing this, but this is probably the
> reason why people use the tinderbox or roll their own system to build
> consistent packages.

I feel like I am though?  I have a dedicated box just for building 
packages.  make package creates a tbz file of all packages, and is 
supposed to be reliable.

> Another approach had even the package dependency inside a Makefile, so
> rebuilding the gettext package would trigger all dependent packages to
> get rebuilt too (I haven't tackled the problem of *reinstalling* them on
> the target hosts, though)

Doesn't this already occur with the default tools in the port system?



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