Using Tinderbox as a package builder

Tim Bishop tim-lists at bishnet.net
Mon Oct 17 18:16:35 EDT 2011


On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 01:24:34AM +0400, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Oct 2011, Tim Bishop wrote:
> 
> > Now I'm looking at providing binary packages for a bunch of servers
> > and it seems like a good idea to use Tinderbox to do this as well. At
> > a simplistic level I could just do this on a regular basis:
> > 
> > 1. Update ports tree
> > 2. Queue my list of leaf ports for rebuilding
> > 
> > Whilst this would do what I need, it would rather pointlessly rebuild
> > all of the leaf ports regardless of whether they needed rebuilding.
> > What I need is a way to only rebuild those that have changed.
> 
> Isn't -norebuild option your best friend? ;)

Thanks Dmitry! That looks like exactly what I need.

Tim.

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