Invalid rebuilds (was: Re: Fedora Extras Package Build Report 2006-10-27)

[Michael Schwendt]

On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 20:21:30 -0400 (EDT), buildsys at fedoraproject.org wrote:

> Packages built and released for Fedora Extras 5: 4 
> 
>     Invalid rebuild: moodle-1.6.3-2.fc5

(!)

>     geomview-1.8.2-0.25.rc9.fc5
>     mod_nss-1.0.6-1.fc5
>     nagios-plugins-1.4.4-2.fc5
> 
> 
> Packages built and released for Fedora Extras 4: 1 
> 
>     Invalid rebuild: moodle-1.6.3-2.fc4

This is a rather new feature, which normally is quiet and does not add
anything to the build report. It happens again and again for unknown
reasons.

It means that somebody has built a package release, which had been built
and published before. The build results are discarded if any of the built
rpms exists in the repository already.

If you need to rebuild a package (i.e. recompile/relink the software
against its build dependencies), do it right and increase the package
%{release} appropriately to produce valid update packages.