[Mageia-dev] mass rebuild for Mga 2 ?

[Pascal Terjan]

On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 17:07, Kamil Rytarowski <n54 at gmx.com> wrote:

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> On 25.03.2012 17:20, Pascal Terjan wrote:
>
>
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> On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 15:51, Angelo Naselli <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. :)
>


Rebuilding half of the distribution now seems the best way to add bugs
before the release...
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