Re: Scanning during bulk builds

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 09:48:29PM +0200, Roland Illig wrote:
> After scanning all the packages, they are ordered so that packages  
> without dependencies are built first, then packages with only a few  
> dependencies, and finally KDE and GNOME.

Actually, it is the reverse. pbulk sorts by size of the depending tree,
e.g. the more packages depend on something, the earlier it will be
build. This is a simple criterion to reduce stale time for parallel
builds.

Joerg