On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Jason Hellenthal <jh...@dataix.net> wrote: > > Hi Gerald, > > As a request once again similiar to one I have made in the past... Would it > be possible yet to slow down the update process for the gcc46 port ? > > This is turning out to be quite the pain in the U-Know-What with version > flapping and rebuilding because a port depends on it. If I am correct it is > updated weekly. I caught the tail end of the previous update and the day > after it was bumped to the next snapshot version & by the time both of those > were finished the port had once again been bumped to _1. > > Is there anything that could be done to stabalize this ... ? > > At this point I am left for the manual intervention of using +IGNOREME files > or excluding by whatever means neccesary as weekly updates seem completely > unneccesary now that alot of ports are shifting to depend on gcc46. > > Can a gcc46-devel port be branched for those that absolutely need the weekly > updates ? +1
gcc46 is used by so many ports that I am continually re-building it and on slow machines, this takes a while. How about a gcc46-devel port that gets the regular updates and let gcc46 stay stable when there are not major fixes? - R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
