[csw-maintainers] surprising set of packages when build spans 2 days

[Peter FELECAN]

Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> writes:

> Am 26.02.2013 um 13:19 schrieb pfelecan <pfelecan at opencsw.org>:
>> As we can see, all the architecture neutral packages, infix "all",
>> are duplicated. This is not only a waste of space but also of
>> time: it means that for each platform they are generated
>> even though once is enough.
>
> This is only true if you build both architectures at the same time.

Yes: "platforms" target which is the most frequent use case, isn't it?

> Ideally they should be the same between sparc and i386, so if you
> build both sparc and i386 on the same day, yes, it gets rewritten.

>From the outside they are not the same...

> It could be excluded from all but the first requested arch, but
> up to now it was not an issue.

This is quite simple to test: start before midnight and instrument a
recipe such as to wait until after midnight at the end of the packaging.

>> Can this be optimized by generating only once the "all" packages
>> when using the "platforms" target?
>> 
>> I don't know which is the effect of this on the packages upload
>> but I'll test it very soon.
>
> You will get collisions, so just throw away the packages from one arch
> with archall.

Thanks. I'll remove one set of architecture neutral packages.

-- 
Peter