Re: package building failure irritation

xorquewasp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@xxxxxx> writes:
xorquewasp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
There's certainly no parallel building going on, but /work is nullfs
mounted (from ZFS). Could this cause the above?
Not sure. Why are you using nullfs?
Basically because "I don't know any better".

That's begging the question... Clearly you're using nullfs because you
need something done that you think nullfs can do for you. I'd like to
know what that is, because I suspect that you don't actually need it,
and it might be the source of your problems.

DES
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