[Mageia-dev] mass rebuild for Mga 2 ?

[Pascal Terjan]

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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