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• tinderbox-based software
• very easy and very safe deployment
• possible to throttle disk/mem/cpu access
  • example of effective soft cpu throttling:
    • start one build
    • monitor cpu/mem load
    • if under target start more
    • if over target send sigstop to the build with least consumed mem
    • but don't forget to send sigcont instead of starting another build next time a build completes
    • this will help use 100% cpu effectively
• possible to throttle bandwidth (different modes)
• can try to build locally installed ports
• can try to build locally ports with locally present distfiles
• can try to build a defined subset of the ports tree
• can try to build everything
• downloads small incremental updates to ports tree from specialized web-service
• can just test build (like a tindy) and/or build and publish real-deal packages
• can run on different systems/architectures <=> careful cross-compilation study
• p5-POE and the like seem like a nice way to automate the builds
  • study of portupgrade and current pointyhat/tinderbox scripts necessary to design proper logic
• a good look at make might be worth it
  • It's high time we migrate the collection from make to something else. The problem is that all
  • makefiles should be preserved as they are for some time at least. Thus it's necessary to
  • have a fully compliant parser or online converter.