bulk build was: computer hung

[Pierre Abbat]

On Tuesday 05 June 2012 09:26:34 Justin Sherrill wrote:
> If you're having problems with a couple packages not rebuilding, the
> fix is not going to be building 12500 additional packages.  If there's
> specific packages you can't get to upgrade, looking at the errors for
> those exact items will do you a lot more good.

I've always upgraded with binary packages, except this once and while I was 
using Source Mage Linux several years ago. Binaries are built from the bottom 
up; pkg_rolling-replace can run into trouble when a package whose name has 
changed, and which it therefore doesn't know how to replace, depends on a 
package that conflicts with a new package that it's building. I had such 
trouble with the Python packages. The default python in 2012Q1 is 2.7; 
previously it was 2.6, and I had lots of build failures because of it. pkgin 
handles this pretty well, but pkg_rolling-replace doesn't.

If I run clean.sh -q, will that continue where it left off instead of 
rebuilding most of the already built packages?

Hopefully I'll have learned how to finish a bulk build by the time 2012Q2 is 
out.

Pierre
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