Rebuilds needed for Fedora 8

[Colin Walters]

On 8/21/07, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 13:23:29 -0400
> "Ray Strode" <halfline at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Why does it do that?
>
> Automated rebuilds are often done with low priority, so that normal
> priority builds aren't held up for days on end (it takes a long time to
> build 3K packages x 4 arches).  If you were to go in after the
> automation came along and updated cvs and scheduled the build,
> and /you/ again bumped CVS and started a build, your build would
> complete before the automated one, then the automated one would
> complete and actually be the 'latest' package since the last tagged
> package wins.  Your change would be lost.  To prevent this, you need to
> wait until the automated build completes, or you have to get rel-eng to
> cancel the build.  It adds a lot of confusion as to the state of the
> build system.


Couldn't existing builds for a package be canceled when a new one is queued?
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