Mass rebuilds

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Sat Dec 9 20:01:11 UTC 2006


On Saturday 09 December 2006 14:53, Axel Thimm wrote:
> But let's face reality: For example how many packages survived w/o a
> rebuild from FC5 to FC6 in extras? 29! That's less that 0.5% of the
> whole repo. And note that only packages with a disttag would had been
> rebuilt anyway, so the whole point does not apply. E.g. any package
> with %{?dist} in the release will have to be rebuilt at some time from
> FC5->FC6 or FC6->FC7 anyhow.

The reason the majority of the rebuilds happened was because of switching to a 
new build system, we wanted to make every package built with said new build 
system.  This doesn't happen every release.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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