[Mageia-dev] mass rebuild for Mga 2 ?

[Thierry Vignaud]

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.