A few new features:

(1) The script now assumes make(1) knows how to handle long dependency
    chains properly.  quickports is a list of ports that take a
    long time to build by thesmelves (not ports that have long
    dependency chains).  The script adds several extra dependency
    levels to the generate Makefile for those ports to make their
    dependency chains longer.

(2) Use -R flag to cvs.  Comment out the cvsup part.

(3) Preserve error messages for ports that didn't build the first
    time around but did build on the retry.

(4) Record the package's timestamps in the log directory by doing
    an "ls -asFlrt" in the packages/All directory.

(5) Add a little sleep after two background jobs so outputs won't
    be garbled.

Tools/portbuild/scripts/dopackages

@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ pb=/var/portbuild
 # packages for dependencies only
 dummyports="x11/XFree86"
 
-# packages with very long dependency lists -- try to start building these first
-quickports="x11/kde2 x11/gnome"
+# packages that take very long to build -- try to start building these first
+quickports="lang/ghc games/civ2demo games/rt2-demo x11/XFree86-4 editors/openoffice"
 
 status=${pb}/status
 
@@ -248,15 +248,15 @@ fi
 
 cd ${pb}/usr/ports
 if [ "$nocvsup" = 0 ]; then
-  echo "================================================"
-  echo "running cvsup"
-  echo "================================================"
-  su ${user} -c 'cvsup -g -L 0 /etc/supfile.cvsup'
-  date > ${pb}/cvsdone
+#  echo "================================================"
+#  echo "running cvsup"
+#  echo "================================================"
+#  su ${user} -c 'cvsup -g -L 0 /etc/supfile.cvsup'
   echo "================================================"
   echo "running cvs update on /usr/ports"
   echo "================================================"
-  su ${user} -c 'cvs -q update -d -P'
+  su ${user} -c 'cvs -qR update -d -P'
+  date > ${pb}/cvsdone
   echo "================================================"
   echo "running make checksubdirs"
   echo "================================================"
@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ if [ "$nocvsup" = 0 ]; then
   echo "running cvs update on /usr/opt/doc"
   echo "================================================"
   cd ${pb}/usr/opt/doc
-  su ${user} -c 'cvs -q update -d -P'
+  su ${user} -c 'cvs -qR update -d -P'
 fi
 
 if [ "$nocvs" = 0 ]; then
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ if [ "$nocvs" = 0 ]; then
   echo "running cvs update on /${branch}/src"
   echo "================================================"
   cd ${pb}/${branch}/src
-  su ${user} -c 'cvs -q update -d -P'
+  su ${user} -c 'cvs -qR update -d -P'
 fi
 
 # this one not in background to check return status
@@ -322,10 +322,14 @@ if [ "$nodummy" = 0 ]; then
   done
 fi
 
-quickpkgs=""
+# hack to extend length of dependency chain to build quickports first
 for i in ${quickports}; do
   if [ -d $i ]; then
-    quickpkgs="${quickpkgs} $(cd $i; make package-name).tgz"
+    quickpkg="$(cd $i; make package-name).tgz"
+    echo "all: dummy1-$quickpkg" >> ../../${branch}/Makefile
+    echo "dummy1-$quickpkg: dummy2-$quickpkg" >> ../../${branch}/Makefile
+    echo "dummy2-$quickpkg: dummy3-$quickpkg" >> ../../${branch}/Makefile
+    echo "dummy3-$quickpkg: $quickpkg" >> ../../${branch}/Makefile
   else
     echo "quick port directory \"$i\" does not exist -- skipping"
   fi
@@ -355,6 +359,7 @@ if [ "$nobuild" = 0 ]; then
   mkdir -p ${pb}/archive/errorlogs/e.${branch}.${date}
   ln -sf ${pb}/archive/errorlogs/e.${branch}.${date} ${pb}/${branch}/errors
   ln -sf e.${branch}.${date} ${pb}/archive/errorlogs/e.${branch}.${shortdate}
+  mkdir -p ${pb}/${branch}/errors/old-errors
   rm -rf ${pb}/archive/errorlogs/a.${branch}.${date} ${pb}/archive/errorlogs/a.${branch}.${shortdate}
   mkdir -p ${pb}/archive/errorlogs/a.${branch}.${date}
   ln -sf ${pb}/archive/errorlogs/a.${branch}.${date} ${pb}/${branch}/logs
@@ -381,7 +386,7 @@ if [ "$nobuild" = 0 ]; then
   echo "================================================"
   echo "started at $(date)"
   phase1start=$(date +%s)
-  make -k -j$count ${quickpkgs} all > ../../make.0 2>&1 </dev/null
+  make -k -j$count all > ../../make.0 2>&1 </dev/null
   echo "ended at $(date)"
   phase1end=$(date +%s)
   echo "phase 1 took $(date -u -j -r $(($phase1end - $phase1start)) | awk '{print $4}')"
@@ -393,6 +398,7 @@ if [ "$nobuild" = 0 ]; then
     echo "The following port(s) timed out:"
     grep -E '(ptimeout|pnohang): killing' make.0 | sed -e 's/^.*ptimeout:/ptimeout:/' -e 's/^.*pnohang:/pnohang:/' 
   fi
+  ls -asFlrt ${pb}/${branch}/packages/All > ${pb}/${branch}/logs/ls-lrt-1
   cp -rp errors old-errors
   cd ${pb}/${branch}/old-errors
   ${pb}/scripts/processlogs
@@ -417,7 +423,7 @@ if [ "$nobuild" = 0 ]; then
   echo "================================================"
   echo "started at $(date)"
   phase2start=$(date +%s)
-  make -k -j$count ${quickpkgs} all > ../../make.1 2>&1 </dev/null
+  make -k -j$count all > ../../make.1 2>&1 </dev/null
   echo "ended at $(date)"
   phase2end=$(date +%s)
   echo "phase 2 took $(date -u -j -r $(($phase2end - $phase2start)) | awk '{print $4}')"
@@ -462,6 +468,7 @@ if [ "$nobuild" = 0 ]; then
   for i in *.log; do
     if [ ! -f ../errors/$i ]; then
       new="$new $(basename $i .log)"
+      cp -p ${i} ${pb}/${branch}/errors/old-errors
     fi
   done
   if [ "x$new" != "x" ]; then
@@ -469,6 +476,7 @@ if [ "$nobuild" = 0 ]; then
   fi
   archiveports ${pb} ${branch} &
   generatemd5 ${pb} ${branch} &
+  sleep 5
   echo "================================================"
   echo "new failures"
   echo "================================================"