Rebuild question

[Michel Salim]

On 3/4/06, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
Thanks both, that clarifies things.

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