Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 06:35:48 -0500 From: Dan Pelleg <daniel+bsd@pelleg.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Compiling Packages Message-ID: <u2s3c8h3pez.fsf@pelleg.org> In-Reply-To: <20040310110526.GA94997@xor.obsecurity.org> (Kris Kennaway's message of "Wed, 10 Mar 2004 03:05:26 -0800") References: <Pine.WNT.4.58.0403100540560.3804@Treneq> <20040310110526.GA94997@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> writes: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 05:44:14AM -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote: >> A few days ago, I posted that packages are not as current as ports are on >> FreeBSD. When I made that statement, someone, I forget whom, claimed that >> they need more machines to compile the code and wanted to know if I wanted >> to donate, or words to that affect. >> >> In any case, would that refer to donating an actual computer, or simply >> donating computer time? I have three computers, only one running FreeBSD >> at this time. I certainly am not going to give away any of my computers, >> but I would be willing to share time on one of them if that would help. > > What would be useful is multiple (e.g. at least half a dozen) fast > machines with good network connectivity. Individual machines aren't > much help, I'm afraid. Thanks for the offer though. > Just a thought - a distcc based system should be able to take advantage of such offers. (No, I'm not volunteering to set one up). -- Dan Pelleg
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