On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 12:36:04PM -0800, J.C. Roberts wrote: > Not many people have the bandwidth and stack of systems required to do > distributed builds of the *ENTIRE* ports tree. None the less, great > people doing bulk builds is how your packages get built for all the > mirrors. At present, they're still using the reliable old dpb rather > than the new "experimental" one because the latter is still under heavy > development and still needs more testing.
Actually, even though it's still under development, it has some very nice features that make it ways more comfortable than old dpb if you can master the beast (e.g., unless it breaks in fun ways, it's ways more easy and responsive than old dpb). Ask all those "great people' who are running bulk builds. and expect more features after 4.7 (currently working on nice switches to build stuff in ram when it fits, attributing a *global* chunk of /tmp for each host, and hoping to add a "to be finished in 20 hours and 10 minutes" more or less acurate guesstimate)
