Rebuild question

[Paul Howarth]

On Sat, 2006-03-04 at 10:09 -0500, Michel Salim wrote:
> If I have a package B that needs rebuilding, and it depends on another
> package A that has been rebuilt but has not been signed, would
> rebuilding B now builds it against the older A?

The buildsystem will use built but not yet signed packages, so you'll
get a build against the new A.

> In short, are unsigned RPMs used to build other RPMs? Any reason why
> it takes days before the signing process is done?

It's still a manual process to sign packages.

Paul.