feature request: record build space used

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 13:59 +0300, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> Yeh, an other one ;)
> 
> 
> It would be very useful to me to have, for each port, stored in the
> database the total size of the space it occupies, together with base OS
> and dependencies, at build time. This value should be updated, if
> bigger that current values, even if the build fails.

How would one know the size before the port builds?  Dependencies are
one thing, but we have no concept of size (even distfile size) before
buildscript is called.

Joe

> 
> This should allow me to use something like:
> mdmfs -s 2000m -o async md${OSV} /var/tinderbox/${OSV}-STABLE-i386-myPT
> in a prePortBuild hook while excluding OOo, some games, etc. for which
> I don't have enough memory and eventually tune the size of the memory
> fs on a per-port basis.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
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