feature request: record build space used

[Wesley Shields]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 12:11:48PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> 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.

You can get a rough idea of it based upon the previous build?  Take the
previous build and add on N% of space for growth?

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