FESCo Meeting Summary for 2007-08-09

Thorsten Leemhuis fedora at leemhuis.info
Fri Aug 10 20:32:52 UTC 2007



On 10.08.2007 22:19, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram (sundaram at fedoraproject.org) said: 
>>>       * FESCo approved a proposal that rebuilds in future releases will
>>>         only be done if there is a technical reason for it. (i.e. not
>>>         doing rebuilds just for cosmetic reasons). 
>> How are end users supposed to differentiate easily packages that have not 
>> been rebuild from packages that have not been updated due to E-V-R and 
>> other issues after they perform an upgrade of Fedora?
> 
> rpm -qa --last
> 
> rpm -qa --qf "%{BUILDTIME}\n"

My 2 cent:

$ package-cleanup --orphans

is IMHO the better tool for the job.

> also... 'don't have E-V-R issues'.

Just wondering: Could we let bodhi enforce this in the future (or is
somebody working on this already and I missed it)?

Cu
knurd




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