pkgsrc bulk builds
David H. Gutteridge <[email protected]> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 20:03:04 -0400
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Hi all, I noticed back in your May archives there was discussion about finding someone to do pkgsrc bulk builds. Someone had expressed interest, but the thread petered out. I have a B180L with half a gig of RAM in it sitting idle (and a decent internet connection), I can commit it to doing pkgsrc builds if that's of use, with one caveat. I'm going to be indisposed for part of September, and I'd also like to tinker with the B180L a bit first. If the group is interested, what I'd propose is I wait for pkgsrc-2005Q3 then do a build on that, as it may be more telling to use a branch that's stabilized. Since I see boot from disk works now, I'm inclined to run things that way, and just upgrade the hard drive that's in the machine right now to something that'll handle the space requirements of a bulk build (I have a drive on-hand I can use). But I thought I should also ask: has anyone run into any stability problems over the long-term after booting from disk (problems suspected to be related to boot from disk, of course)? Regards, David Gutteridge