On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 1:10 AM, Justin C. Sherrill <jus...@shiningsilence.com> wrote: > 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/ >
Ok thanks :-) > 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. > ok, is there a problem if a build is stopped in between? Can it resume from that point later. I won't be able to keep this system up for a week continously :-( > - 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. > Is it possible to mount the /bulk pfs i made for it with "nohistory" ? Other wise I guess I will have to run "hammer cleanup /bulk" occassionally ? thanks :-) --Siju