prevent /space/<build> from recreation everytime tinderbuild starts

[Edwin Groothuis]

On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 08:17:00AM +0100, Oliver Lehmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> the following idea came to my mind while tinderboxing on an old PII-333
> with a slow IDE disk, and I'm interested what others think about it:
> 
> I would like to add a flag to ./tc tinderbuild to prevent /space/<build>
> from recreation (cleanDirs + tar) in case that flag was given on cmdline.
> I see two ways to prevent any polution from any previous run:
>  1) Remove any left-over file when leftovers are detected in portsbuild.

You also have to clean out /work and /var/db/pkg

Also I would only allow this (...) if there were absolutely no
changes in the file system compared to before the build (guid/uid
changes, missing files etc). Leftover files can be removed manually.

Edwin


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