Re: [fink-core] Build Farm (on behalf of Simon Coles)

[Martin C. <cos...@wa...>]

Matthew Sachs wrote:
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> If you don't give it an explicit package list, it will attempt to  
> rebuild every package, even ones in which the latest version was  
> successfully built.  It shouldn't be too much work to write a script  
> that sits on top of buildfink and makes the policy decision about  
> what to try building for a given run.

If we are going to have a "live" bindist, that is one that is 
continually renewed, we have to take care of a problem with apt-get that 
has annoyed me for a long time (and I have mentioned it a couple of 
times, filed even a bug #1065267, closed by vasi "Assuming this is fixed"):

When deciding whether to update an installed package from the bindist, 
apt-get looks not only at %v-%r, but also at some home-made hash sum 
which involves among other things some sort of file size. Therefore it 
often reinstalls packages that are already installed with the exact same 
%v-%r, just because the bindist has changed.

We have to make sure this won't happen with the automatically rebuilt 
packages. Otherwise people will continually reinstall their already 
isntalled packages and won't be happy about it.

-- 
Martin