Frequency of FreeBSD package builds

[Dmitry Morozovsky]

Mat,

On Mon, 8 Dec 2014, Mathieu Arnold wrote:

> | Now that the new_xorg and ssp repositories are not being updated any
> | more, what is the reason for the 'beefy' machines to build ports only
> | once a week? Can we expect the frequency of package upgrades to be higher
> | soon?
> 
> Right now, it does take 3 to 4 days to build the packages each week, so
> it's a bit hard to make it more often than once a week.  We have plans for
> the future, with more building machines, it will be announced when it
> happens.

Am I right supposing that each build is a full one?  What are the downsides of 
incremental builds which should take less than, say, 2 days (if not deepest 
beats like gettext updates involved)?

-- 
Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
[ FreeBSD committer:                                 marck at FreeBSD.org ]
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