Re: rsync and pbulk

[Richard PALO <richard%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Le 24/10/15 00:55, Joerg Sonnenberger a écrit :
> 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
> 

I would not have thought safe to run bulkbuild-rebuild during a bulk build.
(I can try that now as I'm still waiting for the last package of a build to finish)

Then two questions:
1. what is the difference between manually editing meta/error or doing it 
   programatically in this case?
2. perhaps there bulkbuild-rebuild could have logic to programatically 
   update if the bulk build is terminated, or even bite the bullet and put in shared 
   writer logic.


-- 
Richard PALO