Plan for tomorrow's (20070604) Release Engineering meeting

[Matthias Clasen]

On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 01:32 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:

> [1] This isn't completely true however, since package N+1 will not
>     always depend on package N, so an intelligent mass-rebuilder could
>     skip a lot of createrepo steps by only issuing a createrepo when
>     really needed. But even if we kill say 3/4 of all createrepo
>     commands we would still spend 2 weeks in createrepo alone.

That would give up one of the main advantages of the current way of
doing things, namely that every build takes place in a minimal build
root containing only the build requires that the package lists.