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

[Mike McGrath]

On 10/28/06, Michael Schwendt <bugs.michael at gmx.net> wrote:
> 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.

Could this also happen if someone accidently did a make plague twice?

               -Mike