On 2010 Mar 05 (Fri) at 12:36:04 -0800 (-0800), J.C. Roberts wrote:
:The thing is, you've kind mixed things up because you didn't understand
:the context. STeve was doing *more* than just running the -current
:snapshot and packages. He was getting into -HEAD branch to help espie@
:out with testing of the new super cool toy, dpb3 (distributed package
:building). It was clearly announced as "totally experimental for 4.7"
:by espie@ on the ports@ mailing list.
:
: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.
Being the guy that does the sparc package builds, I *am* running it with
the new dpb3. The best way to get testing, is to use it.
(I'm also running dpb3 on my OpenBSD/loongson system, but that is just
for private use, and to find packages that fail to build ;) ).
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