Mass rebuilds (was: (3/3) Summary - Broken dependencies in Fedora Extras development - 2006-12-08)

[Axel Thimm]

On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 12:06:58PM -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Saturday 09 December 2006 11:55, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > That would had been some packages too much (e.g. all non-python
> > packages), but who really cares about bandwidth and rawhide.
> 
> Some?  There would have been a huge number of spurious rebuilds.

So? Other than some CPU cycles wasted who would get hurt? In fact
frequent mass rebuilds would disclose bugs that have gone by
unnoticed, e.g. when a package's direct or indirect build dependencies
change and the maintainer missed to notice that it affects his package
indeed.

Mass rebuilds would either get the package back in shape (like the
python related ones, most packages just need a rebuild) or fail the
build raising the maintainer's attention (like the need for
python-devel BRs).

The point is: Keep the given man power of contributors to being
creative, therefore automate as much a possible. And the disttag
controlled mass rebuilds are such an automated feature, of which
contributors would benefit.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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