[MacPorts] #506: RFE: Quotas & Limits when Executing in packageall.tcl

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#506: RFE: Quotas & Limits when Executing in packageall.tcl
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  Reporter:  Eric.C.Seidel@…             |       Owner:  macports-tickets@…                   
      Type:  enhancement                 |      Status:  closed                               
  Priority:  Normal                      |   Milestone:  MacPorts Future                      
 Component:  base                        |     Version:                                       
Resolution:  wontfix                     |    Keywords:                                       
      Port:                              |  
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Changes (by raimue@…):

  * status:  new => closed
  * resolution:  => wontfix


Old description:

> It would be very useful if packageall would be a little less "trusting"
> when executing configure/
> make/fetch commands for building port files, as some configure/make
> scripts may themselves be
> broken and cause the whole automated process to delay longer than
> necessary or spin out of
> control.
>
> Use of a limit or ulimit command to limit processor consumption... on
> configure scripts
>
> Use of quota to limit consumption for fetch, configure, make to less than
> a gig (or even 10) would
> make sense to me.
>
> I have thus far had two portfiles delay the whole process for several
> hours each when compiling
> the half-ports.  di just sat for 7 hours.... and eli spun out of control
> (consuming 90% on both
> processors of lamancha) for 70 minutes, and wrote over 1 gig of configure
> log files (all because
> the configure script asked a yes/no question  and then kept askign the
> question again, not liking
> the response... whatever it was getting from the tcl script.. I don't
> know).
>
> -eric

New description:

 It would be very useful if packageall would be a little less "trusting"
 when executing configure/
 make/fetch commands for building port files, as some configure/make
 scripts may themselves be
 broken and cause the whole automated process to delay longer than
 necessary or spin out of
 control.

 Use of a limit or ulimit command to limit processor consumption... on
 configure scripts

 Use of quota to limit consumption for fetch, configure, make to less than
 a gig (or even 10) would
 make sense to me.

 I have thus far had two portfiles delay the whole process for several
 hours each when compiling
 the half-ports.  di just sat for 7 hours.... and eli spun out of control
 (consuming 90% on both
 processors of lamancha) for 70 minutes, and wrote over 1 gig of configure
 log files (all because
 the configure script asked a yes/no question  and then kept askign the
 question again, not liking
 the response... whatever it was getting from the tcl script.. I don't
 know).

 -eric

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Comment:

 Configure and compilation can be time consuming especially on older
 machines, so I wouldn't know how to get good values for such limits.

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