extras merging

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 17:00:14 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:

> > >  Bill suggested I merge over all the packages from fedora extras 3 into
> > > fedora development (fc4). What do you think?
> > > 
> > > merge them over and then fix the ones that break or rebuild and fix the
> > > ones that break?
> > 
> > fc4 has gcc4, so I think you want to rebuild everything (and probably more
> > will break than would have otherwise).
> 
> The idea would be that, until everyting *is* rebuilt, the old versions
> would still be available for use. Much like Core packages in rawhide
> that aren't rebuilt yet.

When is everything rebuilt? How do we keep track whether everything is
rebuilt? Do we have scripts which compare EVR of binary package trees?
Do we have the developer resources to make sure that packages which need
a rebuild are noticed as needing a rebuild?