rawhide/fc4 extras builds

[seth vidal]

On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 10:12 -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
>On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 15:46:52 +0100, Michael Schwendt
><bugs.michael at gmx.net> wrote:
>> What are the plans on filling the FE4 repository (where will it be
>> located? "development"?) anyway? Start with an empty directory and only
>> fulfill build requests? Or start with a mass-rebuild (e.g. for FC4 T1) and
>> then fix things gradually?
>
>personally.. i would say do a mass rebuild if possible.. to give the
>test release tester something to test.. if we are talking about the
>fc4t1 timeframe. Don't spoil them with crap that works, testers of
>test1 releases know they are chewing on shards of glass.  You might
>need to do mass-rebuilds on a regular basis during the core testing
>phase to make syncing with rawhide dependancies managable.

While I don't think doing a mass rebuild this moment is a good idea I do
think you're right. My point in doing builds now rather than just later
is to make sure we have a leg to stand on vs some of the vocal critics
of extras.

-sv