Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 05:47:16 +0000 From: "b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com> To: Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com> Cc: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Too many binary packages are missing Message-ID: <AANLkTinEJGgUScAwgWGTFEnGHYrk26USTiDSw6RgqCAW@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4CB8AB15.7000805@rawbw.com> References: <20101014120034.B794D10656D8@hub.freebsd.org> <20101015012001.F2036@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <AANLkTi=3RFz=DUdxHB6fNV6dj2nhY=yS_9JOwaLGVC7N@mail.gmail.com> <4CB89FB4.4020907@rawbw.com> <AANLkTimh8mkikBejTcMBq31e9FCnF5A6v9eB5q6tkitO@mail.gmail.com> <4CB8AB15.7000805@rawbw.com>
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On 10/15/10, Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com> wrote: > On 10/15/2010 11:54, b. f. wrote: > That's quite a delay. This makes it very visible to users. Well, yes, to some. As to whether it's an unreasonably long delay, I'm not sure, considering the amount of work and resources required. After all, we're talking about lag of less than three weeks. You can always talk to the committers doing the work, to get a better idea of the schedule, and if it can be accelerated. >> http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/i386-8-packages-latest/misc/kdeutils-4.5.2.tbz >> >> or, better yet, build your own. >> > > See, this is a problem. I only have one very slow i386 and it takes forever. Well, I have similar problems. I go to the trouble of building from source during periods of low use, after having chosen and configured my software so that I am installing as little as possible, but it still takes longer than I would like on my older i386s. You could configure pointyhat as a secondary source for new packages, and look into whether you could get access to a faster i386/amd64 machine that could be used to make packages for your slower computer. Or you could try to speed builds using devel/ccache and/or, if you can set up a cluster, devel/distcc. b.
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