Greetings all,
in another thread I was whining that ports-mgmt/synth took a lot of time. As usually, it turned out that part of the problem was my idiocy, I forgot to turn on usage of tmpfs.
However, I turned option [N] Fetch prebuilt packages, which I understand as this option making the synth build only those ports, for which I have enabled/disabled certain options for and fetch the rest from the FreeBSD mirrors. However, looking at the logs, everything was being built.
I found an old thread that it is rather difficult to implement the prefetch properly per marion's reply here https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/...-prebuilt-packages-is-true.60164/#post-345717.
Could somebody explain this to me? Since the packages do not have changed options, why rebuilding them "eases the pain of subsequent build"?
Kindest regards,
M
in another thread I was whining that ports-mgmt/synth took a lot of time. As usually, it turned out that part of the problem was my idiocy, I forgot to turn on usage of tmpfs.
However, I turned option [N] Fetch prebuilt packages, which I understand as this option making the synth build only those ports, for which I have enabled/disabled certain options for and fetch the rest from the FreeBSD mirrors. However, looking at the logs, everything was being built.
I found an old thread that it is rather difficult to implement the prefetch properly per marion's reply here https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/...-prebuilt-packages-is-true.60164/#post-345717.
Could somebody explain this to me? Since the packages do not have changed options, why rebuilding them "eases the pain of subsequent build"?
Kindest regards,
M