Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-buildservice (266 mails)

[Adrian Schröter <adrian@xxxxxxx>]

On Donnerstag 13 November 2008 20:16:48 Richard Bos wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Op Thursday 13 November 2008 19:20:11 schreef Jan-Simon Möller:
....
> > Please keep in mind: every duplicate package is wasting space and
> > cpu-cycles. If you just import packages, but have no patch or other
> > changes, use _aggregate. If there's no change, why it should get rebuilt
> > ? (Thats what _link would do.)
>
> Because of the confusing comment on the wiki
> http://en.opensuse.org/Build_Service/Tips_and_Tricks#The_difference_between
> __link_and__aggregate "Aggregate is possible, but slows down your build and
> requires double space. Better build directly against the other repository."
> I don't use aggregate....  Is the comment correct, about the slower builds
> and double file space????  As the packages are already build, I would
> expect that aggregated are not build at all.

Yes, it is correct. If you do not want to copy it than do not aggregate ;)
But just build against the other repository as suggested.

...

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Adrian Schroeter
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