On Thu, October 21, 2010 2:36 am, Siju George wrote: > HI, > > I got around 250 GB free on my desktop. > > I would like to try out a bulkbuild of pkgsrc ;-) > > will that space be enough?
I have some scripts that work as a wrapper around the bulk builds I do; this may be more than you need, but I'd like to see if they make sense to someone who is not me: http://www.shiningsilence.com/simplepbulk/ The two caveats for you: - Bulk builds take a week on decent hardware; you're building over 10,000 packages, after all. The limited_list option in the pbulk config can let you limit it to certain packages, which you may want to do. - If you're doing this on Hammer, keep an eye on disk usage. It generates a huge amount of disk activity if you build everything, and Hammer will happily keep track of all those changes. I've filled terabyte disks unintentionally by performing multiple builds.
