Re: bulk build reuse old package for all matching dependencies?

[Min Sik Kim <minskim%bawi.org@localhost>]

On Oct 30, 2008, at 8:03 AM, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> Does anyone do bulk builds reusing old packages?
>
> Anyone interested to setup a bulk build that keeps all old packages,  
> only
> builds new packages for version/revision changes, and always reuses  
> old
> matching packages for dependencies?
>
> Maybe setup via cron daily so it would only do new builds of  
> packages that
> have new version/revision changes.
>
> This would be useful to catch problems where a dependency  
> requirement was
> not changed, for example committer has new dependency installed but  
> pkgsrc
> allows old one which is not good enough.
>
> Do any of the bulk build frameworks easily/readily support this?


I used to do such bulk builds with the old bulk build framework by  
setting USE_BULK_TIMESTAMPS=no (see mk/bulk/bsd.bulk-pkg.mk).

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Min Sik Kim