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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