Automatically reinstall ports (UPDATE)

Bradley Giesbrecht pixilla at macports.org
Mon Mar 5 11:29:18 PST 2012


On Mar 5, 2012, at 10:36 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> 
> On Mar 4, 2012, at 22:06, Jeff Singleton wrote:
> 
>> The only problems were that 16 core cpu's don't exist yet
> 
> Apple shipped Xserves with 8 hyper-threaded cores (which appear to the OS as 16 virtual cores) in 2009 and 12-core (24-virtual-core) Mac Pros in 2010...
> 
> But yes, reinstalling ports can take some time. Fortunately it's not something you have to do every day.

Sandboxing the build process would really help for systems that cannot be down for hours/days.
Fingers crossed for GSOC sandbox build.


Regards,
Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)


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