bootstrap macro

[Marcela Mašláňová]

On 07/01/2011 03:47 PM, Iain Arnell wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Petr Pisar<ppisar at redhat.com>  wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 06:08:49PM +0200, Iain Arnell wrote:
>>>
>>> Interesting though this is, why are we trying to bootstrap the entire
>>> rebuild? Perl 5.14 is sufficiently compatible with 5.12 that we can
>>> continue to provide perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_5.12.*) in perl-5.14.1 rpm
>>> until the rebuild is (nearly) complete and only need to worry about
>>> bootstrapping the arch-specific stuff (a much smaller problem set with
>>> no circular deps that affected my rebuild in mock). Once all the
>>> arch-specific stuff is rebuilt, all of the noarch packages should just
>>> work (except those with real failures due to new features - mostly
>>> regex stringification messing up tests).
>>>
>> The noarch compatibility between 5.12 and 5.14 is almost perfect, but this
>> could not be true in future upgrades. Being able to bootstrap perl fully
>> automatically is great benefit. E.g we plan converting fractional versions to
>> version object strings (due to compatibility with RPM), so bootstrap build is
>> wanted prerequisite. (Not mentioning moving packages between distributions or
>> testing other crazy ideas like parallel installation of different Perl
>> versions). I remember 5.12 rebuild and it was horror because of mixing old and
>> new builds. If new Perl is going to be released each year, we need to have
>> automated solution that can deal with all (ok. almost all) potential problems
>> the Perl rebase can bring.
>
> Sure, full bootstrap rebuild would be nice to have. But wouldn't it be
> better to work out the details locally using mock first?
>
> We're now approaching the fourth week of this mass rebuild and still
> have at least 700 packages to go.... The branch/feature freeze is
> already less than one month away.
>
>
Yes, we are aware of it. Hopefully it shouldn't take so much time now.

We can always build it last week before alpha in old stupid way.

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Marcela Mašláňová
BaseOS team Brno