Re: rsync and pbulk

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

On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 07:16:56PM +0200, Richard PALO wrote:
> Le 23/10/15 19:02, Jonathan Perkin a écrit :
> >> It would naturally be nice to be able to do both after a build with any failures.
> >> That is, both bulkbuild-rebuild *and* bulkbuild-restart.
> > 
> > The general procedure to avoid having to restart from scratch is to
> > remove the failed package from the meta/error file then
> > bulkbuild-restart.  That has always worked ok for me.
> > 
> what would be nice then (and I guess I thought it was the case:) a success bulkbuild-rebuild should automatically clean the package out of meta/error.
> Then bulkbuild-restart can continue with the packages depending on what previously didn't build.

The reason this doesn't exist is that I don't know any way to do inplace
file updates like that in shell. I'm using bulkbuild-rebuild quite a bit while
the build is still running and any copying of the file would disrupt
the running bulk build.

Joerg