Re: Compiling Packages

2004-03-11 Thread Dan Pelleg
Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] And can building be scheduled for off-peak times? Right now, not easily. Over the next few months I hope to rewrite the build process to use Sun GridEngine, which will allow much more flexible control over which machines to use for which builds.

Compiling Packages

2004-03-10 Thread Gerard Seibert
A few days ago, I posted that packages are not as current as ports are on FreeBSD. When I made that statement, someone, I forget whom, claimed that they need more machines to compile the code and wanted to know if I wanted to donate, or words to that affect. In any case, would that refer to

Re: Compiling Packages

2004-03-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 05:44:14AM -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote: A few days ago, I posted that packages are not as current as ports are on FreeBSD. When I made that statement, someone, I forget whom, claimed that they need more machines to compile the code and wanted to know if I wanted to

Re: Compiling Packages

2004-03-10 Thread Dan Pelleg
Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 05:44:14AM -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote: A few days ago, I posted that packages are not as current as ports are on FreeBSD. When I made that statement, someone, I forget whom, claimed that they need more machines to compile the

Re: Compiling Packages

2004-03-10 Thread Peter Risdon
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 05:44:14AM -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote: A few days ago, I posted that packages are not as current as ports are on FreeBSD. When I made that statement, someone, I forget whom, claimed that they need more machines to compile the code and wanted to

Re: Compiling Packages

2004-03-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 06:35:48AM -0500, Dan Pelleg wrote: What would be useful is multiple (e.g. at least half a dozen) fast machines with good network connectivity. Individual machines aren't much help, I'm afraid. Thanks for the offer though. Just a thought - a distcc based

Re: Compiling Packages

2004-03-10 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 05:44:14AM -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote: A few days ago, I posted that packages are not as current as ports are on FreeBSD. When I made that statement, someone, I forget whom, claimed that they need more machines to compile the code and wanted to

Re: Compiling Packages

2004-03-10 Thread Scott W
Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 05:44:14AM -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote: A few days ago, I posted that packages are not as current as ports are on FreeBSD. When I made that statement, someone, I forget whom, claimed that they need more

Re: Compiling Packages

2004-03-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 12:58:33PM -0600, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: I've been getting more interested in clustering. With all the hoopla (as it were) about BSD clusters, would one fast cluster do this task? (i.e., could you build packages over MPI?) I don't currently use MPI, and

Re: Compiling Packages

2004-03-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 11:41:02AM +, Peter Risdon wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 05:44:14AM -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote: A few days ago, I posted that packages are not as current as ports are on FreeBSD. When I made that statement, someone, I forget whom,