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Old 01-10-2011
Shell script that will do two things at once
I am trying to script up a build of my system from source, and the first couple of steps requires me to do a pull from a CVS mirror three times, and then the script begins.

What I'd like is to be able to do one CVS pull, then start the build of userland, and while userland is building, pull down xenocara sources, and finally pull my ports. Because userland takes an hour or so, I would like to save time pulling source while the building occurs. Is this even possible?
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Old 01-10-2011
Gnu make has a parallel option, and make can do CVS calls to make source for missing files, aged files, or unconditionally.
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