Compiling Packages

[Peter Risdon]

Kris Kennaway wrote:

>On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 05:44:14AM -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote:
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>>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.
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>What would be useful is multiple (e.g. at least half a dozen) fast
>machines with good network connectivity.  
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Out of interest, how fast, how big a connection, how much disk space? 
And can building be scheduled for off-peak times?

PWR.