GCC 4.3 mass rebuilds delayed until later this afternoon

[Josh Boyer]

On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:33:12 +0000
Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:

> Josh Boyer wrote:
> > On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:16:22 +0100
> > Denis Leroy <denis at poolshark.org> wrote:
> > 
> >> Jesse Keating wrote:
> >>> Due to this mornings buildsystem outage I'm going to delay the start of
> >>> our GCC 4.3 mass rebuilds.
> >>>
> >>> I will send mail when the building will begin, I'm shooting to start in
> >>> about 3~ hours.
> >> is the algorithm "rebuild all except specifically blacklisted" or
> >> "rebuild all except blacklisted AND already rebuilt with gcc 4.3" ? :-)
> > 
> > The latter.  The need rebuild script already takes that into account.
> 
> What about all the perl packages that are going to need to be rebuilt 
> again when perl 5.10 hits the buildroots?

They'll be rebuilt twice.  Once now, once again for 5.10.

> I've been holding off building my perl packages for this reason, and was 
> (clearly mistakenly) under the impression that perl would be updated 
> before the scripted rebuild happened.

It was supposed to have happened, yes.  I have no idea what prevented
it from landing before now.

josh