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

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 13:04:04 -0500, Mike McGrath 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?

Not if make plague is run twice within minutes.

Only if build job #1 finishes and is published before build job #2
finishes and overwrites the results of job #1 (or vice versa depending on
build speed).

In this case, moodle-1.6.3-2.{fc4,fc5} were released on 23-Oct-2006 before.