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

[Colin Guthrie]

'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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