Has the port collection become to large to handle.
Panagiotis Astithas
past at ebs.gr
Mon May 15 08:18:03 UTC 2006
Mark Linimon wrote:
> On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 02:04:55PM +0300, Panagiotis Astithas wrote:
>> I believe that one solution to the scalability problem of creating and
>> maintaining updated packages, would be to decentralize it more. Each
>> time I submit an update for one of the ports I maintain, I've already
>> build the relevant packages, as a QA measure. There should be no need to
>> wait for the ports cluster to build the official version, instead of
>> using my own, modulo perhaps the higher quality assurance you'd get from
>> Kris's build infrastructure.
>
> You have built the package for one build environment (buildenv). There
> are 12. See http://portsmon.freebsd.org/portsoverall.py.
Quite right. But I think that would still be helpful to the majority of
users (of packages). If a maintainer can't build a package for a
particular build environment due to lack of resources, we can always use
the regular cluster builds for these architectures. We just gained a
more timely release of the most wanted package(s), no?
Frankly, the availability of up-to-date packages is the only issue from
this thread I really care about. I've been contemplating about graphical
package installers for FreeBSD for some time and most ideas fall short
since there would not be much point in using a package installer
without... er... packages :-)
Regards,
Panagiotis
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