[Mageia-dev] mass rebuild for Mga 2 ?

[Funda Wang]

Maybe we could filter out those noarch packages, esp those perl modules.

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