[Mageia-dev] mass rebuild for Mga 2 ?

Sun Mar 25 19:23:55 CEST 2012

On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 18:11, Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud at gmail.com>wrote:
+
+> On 25 March 2012 18:15, Pascal Terjan <pterjan at gmail.com> wrote:
+> >> 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.
+>
+> (...)
+>
+> > Rebuilding half of the distribution now seems the best way to add bugs
+> > before the release...
+>
+> On the other hand, we my got bugs introduced when pushing a security
+> update due to the new toolchain not having been tested with those
+> packages...
+> Or having packages not rebuilding when patching them for security
+> fixes.
+>
+
+Yes but I think it's something that should have been done after toolchain
+was updated in december, or at latest around beta1/version freeze, not 2
+weeks before the release candidate
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