Allowing for parallel builds in the FreeBSD Ports Collection

Proposal: http://code.google.com/soc/2008/freebsd/appinfo.html?csaid=682F3B8616BC4B55 (This link is broken):

Possible alternative on the archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20100306065512/http://code.google.com/soc/2008/freebsd/appinfo.html?csaid=682F3B8616BC4B55

Building ports in parallel is considered unsafe and is generally a bad idea. The goal of this project is make building multiple ports at one time as safe as possible, and eventually enable parallel dependency building.

TODO

Updated 07/07/2008

$PKG_DBDIR locks

COMPLETE

Install awareness

COMPLETE

Fetch awareness

COMPLETE

Work awareness

COMPLETE

$PORT_DBDIR locks

UNNEEDED(?)

Implement FAKE_J

COMPLETE

Usable interface

ABANDONED(?)

Add features to pkg_install suite

COMPLETE

Project Update 07/07/2008

Project Update 08/14/08

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