Andy Fawcett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Saturday 04 February 2006 11:47, Heino Tiedemann wrote:
>> My Story:
>>
>> At the begining of the last week: KDE came in new minor version
>> 3.5.1. I compiled all the night, and all the next day.
>
> You wanted the latest KDE, didn't you?

At that moment: yes. 
But compiling it 2 times more in the same week: no

>> Well, after that, one or two days later, there was a recomendation in
>> UPDATING:
>>
>> ,----[ /usr/ports/UPDATING ]
>>
>> | 20060202:
>> |   AFFECTS: users of textproc/expat2
>> |   AUTHOR: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> |
>> |   Users of expat2 (and its many dependencies) should do the
>> | following to properly update expat2 and all of its dependencies:
>> |
>> |   portupgrade -rf textproc/expat2
>>
>> `----
>>
>> Well, I compiled all night und all day, but 1 fails und 11 (or 12)
>> skipped. I compiled again these 12 (or 13) Ports - it was mostly
>> kde-stuff (-base, -libs, -i18n,..).
>
> This one's out of our hands, we don't maintain expat2, and there wasn't 
> a great deal we could do about it.

I Understand. Sorry, if you faal attacked. 
My Article schuld be post to expat maintainer...

>> Today - yeah yeah, today is a fine day, because the compiling mess is
>> over. What a wunderfull morning...
>
> -21C and sunny here.

LOL ;-)

>> just make a cvsup, to see everything is up to date
>> AAARGH....WH... WHAT IS THIS:
>>
>> fontconfig                          <
>> kdebase                             <
>> kdegraphics                         <
>> pcre                                <
>
> kdegraphics has a security fix.
> kdebase had a usability fix.
>
> You do want that we fix security issues, don't you?

Okay, youre right. Maby I'm a little bit annoyed about a security fix
after the short time (only a few days).

>> Just WHY?
>
> Because it's impossible for all the various maintainers to 100% 
> coordinate commits to avoid the rebuilds. The expat2 one was painful, 
> at least here it affected 240 ports, some of which were large.
>
>> Is there now way to avoid that amount of compiling sessions?
>
> There are several ways you can avoid it:
>
> Wait for packages.
> Wait for a few days after a major version update to see if anything else 
> needs fixing (quite often we have to make minor tweaks)

I will do that.

> Install something other than FreeBSD

No ;-)

> Sell your PC and become a hermit in a cave with no electricity.

I see, you fell pissed - sorry. You maintainers do a great job. Of
course you do.

Heino

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