Looks like good news on the package builder timeframes for official 'bulk -Ca' (and the like) builds

A hopeful sign for package 'bulk -Ca' like build times
(from the EXP run that completed vs. an older one back
in Feb.):

pkg-2.1.99.5: gohan06 142amd64-default-foo 2025-06-08_06h54m52s built 35989
Elapsed: 57:00:35

pkg-2.0.6:    gohan06 141amd64PR284529     2025-02-03_14h15m15s built 36058
Elapsed: 51:15:54
(log files no longer available, so pkg 2.0.6 is presumed
from the date involved)

So: no large multiplier any more for the large number of
packages involved in the examples.

For ampere3 (latest aarch64 and armv7, both for 14.* and
13.*) and ampere2 (main aarch64 and armv7, which is also
based on latest) this should greatly cut the rough 1
month for each of those servers to complete a cycle of
builds. (ampere3: cycles through 4 types of builds and
ampere2 cycles through 2 types of builds. ampere2 likely
runs a debug kernel.)

ampere1 time will likely be cut as well, but it
builds quarterly, which changes slower, so each
cycle of 4 types of ampere1 based builds generally
takes much less elapsed time compared to ampere3.
(Not true when the builds happen to approximate
'bulk -Ca' full builds, for example.)

So pkg 2.2.0+ looks like it will make builds be
significantly more timely, much closer to what pkg
2.0.6 was like.

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Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com