RFC: Mass rebuild of Fedora Extras before FC5 and how to handle orphaned packges for FC5

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams ivazquez at ivazquez.net
Thu Jan 19 18:37:03 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 18:17 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Am Montag, den 16.01.2006, 18:00 +0100 schrieb Ralf Corsepius:
> > On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 17:37 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > > Am Sonntag, den 15.01.2006, 16:13 -0600 schrieb Josh Boyer:
> > > > On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 15:27 -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> > > > > On 1/15/06, Josh Boyer <jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org> wrote:
> > > > > > 1) Create a FE5 blocker bug.
> > 
> > > Another idea: Tell everybody to rebuild. Wait a week. Fill bugs for all
> > > packages that dind't get rebuild.
> > 
> > This only works if packages build-deps are independent of each other. In
> > reality, a package depends on a tree of packages.
> > 
> > Therefore you have to sequentially rebuilt from the root of the tree of
> > package deps and can't "Tell everybody to rebuild" (== rebuild
> > everything at once).

> - we have a script that builds everything in the correct order

We could use repoquery to write this. Give me a bit of time to put it
together.

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Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez at ivazquez.net>
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