Package EVR problems in FC+FE 2006-12-02

[Axel Thimm]

On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 03:12:54PM +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > You end up with undeterministic builds that fail only
> > sometimes. 
> >
> > That's because if master and generated files are changed at
> > the same time, e.g. through a patch, then make may consider the
> > generated files not to be newer that the master and will try to
> > regenerate nonetheless.
> 
> Sorry, Axel, this is nonsense.

Thanks to Wart's post on threads previously made on this topic one can
find you yourself confirming the above "nonsense".
(https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-list/2006-June/msg00536.html):

On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 03:26:42 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> The down-side would be users rebuilding a package and having the
> autotools installed, would see the autotools be run, i.e.
> non-deterministic "user-builts".
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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