To work around this, do:

$ make fetch-list | tee ~/somefile.txt

The 'tee' command will let you see what's going on as it writes the
list for later use.

for the packages which have a lot of dependencies.
You can also prepare a list of packages, one per line, like:

www/firefox
security/sudo
devel/subversion-base

and then run, from the root of your pkgsrc tree:

for i in `cat /path/to/list.txt`; do \
  ( cd $i && make fetch ); \
done

You can incorporate the fetch-list target here as you see fit.

To speed up builds, I often use MAKE_JOBS=2 (I have two cores/CPUs).
This requires me to keep a list of packages which I know are not
MAKE_JOBS_SAFE but do not have this included in their makefiles and
add some makefile rules to set MAKE_JOBS to empty if one of those were
encountered.  You can just add MAKE_JOBS_SAFE=no to each makefile, but
I find it easier to work from a central list of them than modify
makefiles all over the place.

Regards,

--Blair



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