[Mageia-dev] mass rebuild for Mga 2 ?

Sun Mar 25 19:26:31 CEST 2012

Maybe we could filter out those noarch packages, esp those perl modules.
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+2012/3/26 Pascal Terjan <pterjan at gmail.com>:
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+> On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 18:11, Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud at gmail.com>
+> wrote:
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+>> 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.
+>>
+>> (...)
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+>> > 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.
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+> 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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