Mass rebuild for f7-merge?

[Michael Schwendt]

On Fri, 4 May 2007 17:44:34 +0200, Laurent Rineau wrote:

> On Wednesday 11 April 2007 15:04:59 Jesse Keating wrote:
> > On Wednesday 11 April 2007 08:31:15 Axel Thimm wrote:
> > > The fc6 tag is really cosmetics in comparison to what we may run into
> > > w/o a proper rebuild. In fact we should really keep them (the tags),
> > > so when a package explodes the user/bug reporter/bug assignee will be
> > > able to identify the distribution the package was built on and perhaps
> > > derive that that's the real issue.
> >
> > With Koji, it is pretty easy to find out EXACTLY what packages were in the
> > buildroot to build any given package.  The dist tag is not necessary for
> > guessing.
> 
> Jesse,
> 
> I was browsing Koji's pages when I discovered that my packages were all 
> rebuild by you the day before yesterday (2007/05/02). Actually, I discovered 
> that the tag "f7-merge" is composed of 2998 rebuilds, made by you on 
> Wednesday:
> 
> https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taginfo?tagID=11
> 
> I am pretty sure that I have not understood something. Maybe these rebuild 
> jobs are fake rebuilds, like a kind of copy (I do not know if the build 
> system can even rebuild almost 3000 packages in one day).
> 
> Can you give a word about that? :-)

Your theory is correct. koji needs the "build" information for all its
packages to fill database tables.