Packages with "fc6" name in Fedora 7

David Cantrell dcantrell at redhat.com
Mon Apr 9 21:24:06 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 13:57 -0400, Christopher Aillon wrote:
> Matthew Miller wrote:
> > Speaking from
> > experience as someone who rebuilds a lot of packages, this is exactly the
> > reason to rebuild all packages at some point in the development cycle. It
> > sucks to discover that a package doesn't actually rebuild cleanly anymore
> > when you really need to do it urgently.
> 
> It does suck.  Firefox security updates in Fedora have been delayed due 
> to compiler and other toolchain issues, due to GTK+ changes, due to 
> pango changes, etc.
> 
> Still, That does not warrant a rebuild at this point because new 
> features can crop up and we lose testing on a stable set of packages.
> 
> I'd rather see a tinderbox-like build happen for these things to catch 
> them.  Rebuilds should happen as quickly as we can churn them out, but 
> these builds should be _throwaway_ builds.  They should not be released. 
>   The main purpose should be to catch things that no longer rebuild 
> properly.  This will solve the issue without needlessly pushing new 
> packages to people over a cosmetic change this late in the game.

I do this for the stuff I maintain using scratch builds in brew.  This
could easily be expanded to an X-line script that just always runs and
walks the CVS tree building whatever is the latest tag for devel for a
package.

It might also be useful to have this kind of system be opt-in for
package maintainers rather than dumping everything in at once.

Going even further, we could also opt-in spare boxes we have as builders
for this system.

-- 
David Cantrell <dcantrell at redhat.com>
Red Hat / Westford, MA
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