[Mageia-dev] mass rebuild for Mga 2 ?

Sun Mar 25 18:07:18 CEST 2012

On 25.03.2012 17:20, Pascal Terjan wrote:
+>
+>
+> On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 15:51, Angelo Naselli <anaselli at linux.it 
+> <mailto:anaselli at linux.it>> wrote:
+>
+>     In data domenica 25 marzo 2012 14:48:01, Julien ha scritto:
+>     > Hello,
+>     >
+>     > Is there a mass rebuild planned before mageia 2 ? And if not, is
+>     there a
+>     > value in rebuilding a package without update since 1 year ?
+>     Can you point us the list? Maybe we can consider if they can go,
+>     or have to be
+>     rebuild, or removed...
+>
+>
+> That's one third of the packages
+>
+> [schedbot at valstar ~]$ ls 
+> /distrib/mirror/distrib/cauldron/SRPMS/core/release/*.mga1.src.rpm | wc -l
+> 3420
+> [schedbot at valstar ~]$ ls 
+> /distrib/mirror/distrib/cauldron/SRPMS/core/release/*.mga2.src.rpm | wc -l
+> 6479
+>
+I have got a semi-automated script to do it.
+
+On 05.12.2011 15:26, Thomas Backlund wrote:
+> Hi,
+>
+> so... the long wait is over....
+>
+> I've submitted gcc-4.6.2-1.mga2 to core/release now.
+>
+> As soon as it's available on the primary mirror I'll invalidate the 
+> cauldron chroots on the BS to make sure the new gcc is used.
+>
+> Ater that I'll submit a new glibc and kernel so they are built with
+> the new toolchain.
+>
+> So, we now have glibc & the toolchain upgraded:
+> - glibc is at 2.14.1 (available in cauldron since 2011-10-24)
+> - binutils 2.22 (available in cauldron since 2011-11-28)
+> - gcc-4.6.2 (available later today (2011-12-05)
+>
+> Now, in order to provide a very good Mageia 2, every package should
+> be rebuilt with the new toolchain/glibc in order to make sure they
+> still build _and_ work correctly (and flush out any bugs in the
+> toolchain)
+>
+> Now this rebuild should be done preferably in BR order when possible,
+> to rule out bad interaction between packages and be preferably be
+> fully done by alpha3 or beta1 at the latest so we have time to fix
+> it properly for Mageia 2.
+>
+> -- 
+> Thomas
+
+So we should focus not on the mga1 packages but not [re]bulded since 
+pushing the 4.6.2.
+
+On 06.12.2011 00:13, Thomas Backlund wrote:
+> 05.12.2011 16:26, Thomas Backlund skrev:
+>> Hi,
+>>
+>> so... the long wait is over....
+>>
+>> I've submitted gcc-4.6.2-1.mga2 to core/release now.
+>>
+>> As soon as it's available on the primary mirror I'll invalidate the
+>> cauldron chroots on the BS to make sure the new gcc is used.
+>>
+>> Ater that I'll submit a new glibc and kernel so they are built with
+>> the new toolchain.
+>
+>
+> New gcc-4.6.2-1.mga2, glibc-2.14.1-3.mga2, kernel-3.1.4-2.mga2 are now 
+> on the mirrors.
+>
+> -- 
+> Thomas
+So 6th December is the day when new toolchain landed on the mirrors and 
+all older packages should be rebuilt.
+
+I will prepare a tracker to monitor it according to the package 
+maintainership. :)
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