[Mageia-dev] Mgaqueue, a small queue for BS

Tue Mar 13 15:19:13 CET 2012

'Twas brillig, and Thierry Vignaud at 13/03/12 13:37 did gyre and gimble:
+> On 13 March 2012 10:13, Julien <julien.moragny at laposte.net> wrote:
+>> I have written a small bash script to ease the pushing of multiple package
+>> on the build system.
+>> It takes a list of packages as argument (or a file with the list), submit
+>> them one after another, while waiting for completion between each package.
+>> It aborts when a failure occurs.
+>>
+>> you can find it here :
+>> https://gitorious.org/mgaqueue
+>>
+>> I'm already using it since some times to update compiz and mikala use it for
+>> kde. So it shouldn't eat your kitten.
+> 
+> To maximize throughput w/o affecting latency for other packages, you
+> could keep up to 2 building packages (we can build two at a time).
+
+I guess one of the issues then is how to deal with dependences... e.g.
+if B follows A and B needs A then B better wait for A.
+
+I guess two modes could be useful too.
+
+Col
+
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