On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 09:36:36AM -0700, Gary Aitken wrote: > ... > ... > >> Can someone tell me what the best time to synchronize ports is, > >> in terms of having a consistent ports tree? > ... > I'm interested in a consistent ports tree for build purposes. I want > updates, but I want the tree to be consistent enough to build. In > the past I have sync'd at less than ideal times and things did not > build as a result. I understand this is always a possibility, but > was wondering if there was a time when it was most likely consistent. > For example, is a weekly build done on the ports tree starting at a > particular day and time? Daily? > ....
Of the possibly-relevant things I do, the one that comes to mind is that I maintain a local private mirror of the FreeBSD SVN ports repository. (I also maintain one each for src and doc, but that's veering off-topic.) I synchronize my mirror overnight (in 2 passes -- though that's a legacy from when I used CVSup, and was because of the huge amount of time spent when a new tag was laid down; with svn, that's really not an issue). In my case, the sync runs at about 03:30 hrs. US/Pacific. That done, I can make my ports working copy follow head or a quarterly branch as I see fit -- though in practice, I choose follow head. (I also update the base system frequently (daily), and follow that by updating all installed ports on the laptop I use for day-to-day use. That's probably something folks ought to think long and hard about before actually doing it: it works for me, but it's not for everyone.) And the repository is thus stable while I'm awake, which I find useful. On the other hand, if someone commits a change I need just after I synchronized for the day, well... that's awkward. Peace, david -- David H. Wolfskill da...@catwhisker.org Ref. 08 Nov 2016, let's see if the "winners" actually deliver on their slogans. See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key.
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