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

Oliver Lehmann lehmann at ans-netz.de
Mon Nov 7 15:46:56 EST 2005


Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:

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> 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:
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> | 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.
> 
> rm -rf'ing cleandirs takes too long?  They should already be mostly
> empty (except for leftovers).  The build is only rebuilt on a phase
> shift (i.e. between phases 1 and 2).
> 

Ok, but what takes long here is (on a slow machine which is my CURRENT
testsystem) creating the build directory every time i start tinderbuild ;)


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