<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Pierre Cazenave <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pwcazenave@gmail.com">pwcazenave@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Chess Griffin wrote:<br>
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On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Pierre Cazenave<<a href="mailto:pwcazenave@gmail.com" target="_blank">pwcazenave@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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Hi all,<br>
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I'm not sure if this has been discussed before, but I've noticed that if I<br>
use a queue file to build a package and its dependencies, then all the<br>
packages listed in the queue file will be built, irrespective of whether<br>
they're already installed. A useful option would be to have sbopkg skip<br>
building those files that are already installed, thus reducing build times<br>
considerably. This way, a centrally distributed queue file (like those in<br>
/var/lib/sbopkg/queues) wouldn't build packages already installed on a<br>
user's system.<br>
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This has come up before. �The only difficulty is that this option<br>
really could not do a simple check of whether the package in the queue<br>
is installed. �To do it right, it would essentially first have to<br>
determine whether a package in the queue is installed and then also<br>
determine whether there is an update to that package. �If the package<br>
passed both checks -- meaning the package is installed and there is no<br>
update -- then conceivably it could be skipped (or the user given the<br>
option to skip). �Overall, this would probably slow down the queue<br>
processing at the outset. �This is not an insurmountable problem, but<br>
still it is something to consider.<br>
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I agree that it would be helpful, though.<br>
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Perhaps having the default as it is at the moment, so that there's no increase in time for the standard behaviour, but having a flag like --check-installed could then trigger the slower checks for installed packages? This way a casual-ish user would have the current experience, but if you wanted to avoid the possibility of having to rebuild packages you've already installed, it'd be available as an option.<br>
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Of course, you can just comment out the installed packages from the queue file, but I don't always remember everything that's installed on my system!<br>
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I also don't think it'd necessarily have to check for updates to the currently installed packages, as that's more a job for the dedicated update option in sbopkg.</blockquote><div><br></div></div>The issue here is that you may want to build a package you have already installed.<br>
<br>Actually, we have a half-working patch that, in the queue view, instead of "Found" shows whether a package with the same name is installed, and if so which version is installed. You still have to deselect things manually, but at least you have a handy reference.<br>
<br>Do you think this would be enough to address the issue?<br>-- <br>Mauro Giachero<br>