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Allowing for parallel builds in the FreeBSD Ports Collection
[http://code.google.com/soc/2008/freebsd/appinfo.html?csaid=682F3B8616BC4B55 Proposal]
Building ports in parallel is considered unsafe and is generally a bad idea. The goal of this project is make building multiple ports at one time as safe as possible, and eventually enable parallel dependency building.
TODO
| $PKG_DBDIR locks | INCOMPLETE | |
| Fetch awareness | INCOMPLETE | |
| Work awareness | INCOMPLETE | |
| $PORT_DBDIR locks | INCOMPLETE | |
| Working –jobs switch | INCOMPLETE | |
| Usable interface | INCOMPLETE | |
| Add features to pkg_install suite | INCOMPLETE | |