Fedora 11 Mass Rebuild Status
by Jesse Keating
Well the initial pass of the rebuild has finished!
6217 completed builds. Of those 6117 need to be tagged.
Down to 450 failed builds that need attention.
512 builds that still need to be done or otherwise accounted for (like
dead packages that haven't been blocked).
76 failures in the build submission path that need to be examined.
Extremely impressive for 4~ days of work.
In just a few minutes I'll be kicking off the tag submissions, which
will likely completely overload the buildsystem for at least an hour,
although I'm just guessing. We've never submitted this many tag
requests with this many active builders with their new algorithms for
taking tasks. The tag requests should be without email to save some
spam. Syncing rawhide tomorrow will be quite slow and painful.
I'll post a raw unbuilt list to go along with our failure list a little
later today and I'll be working through the packages that didn't quite
make it through the submission process. All in all though I'd consider
this quite successful!
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Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
14 years, 3 months
Mass Rebuild Status
by Jesse Keating
We're now roughly 4 days into the mass rebuild. Things are going very
smoothly. Some interesting numbers:
Roughly 5650 submissions have been made to the build system thus far.
Roughly 4640 builds have completed in dist-f11-rebuild.
Of those, 4585 would be tagged into dist-f11 if we started tagging
today.
Checking the builds in both dist-f11 and dist-f11-rebuild for things
that have been built after the run started shows 2201 builds still
needing to be done.
There have been 505 build failures (these will be posted later broken
down by maintainer), although some of these were due to buildsystem
errors and have been resubmitted.
There are so far 68 packages that failed in some way or another prior to
the build submission that have to be manually looked at.
All in all it has been quite smooth, and I'm very impressed at how well
the buildsystem has handled the onslaught of builds. At first, ppc
builders were the bottle neck, but the Infrastructure rock stars were
able to bring a couple more PPC builders online. After that the CVS
server quickly became the bottleneck, slowing down my ability to submit
packages faster than the buildsystem could handle them. At that point I
broke my script apart and had multiple threads submitting builds at the
same time which enabled me to fill the build queue once again. We're
down to a final thread, working its way through the p packages (into
perl-H* now). If the buildsystem catches up, I'll break that further
down into threads.
I expect the builds to finish by Friday or Saturday of this week, and
then I'll start the tagging. The rawhide report for the next day will
be late, and probably too big to post to the mailing list. Rest
assured, every package changed (:
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Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
14 years, 3 months
Heads up: Taglib-sharp bump incoming
by David Nielsen
The new taglib-sharp package is currently being built which will provide our
users with nice bugfixes and additional features. However the module version
has been bumped and depending packages will need to be rebuilt. Only Beagle
and Banshee should be affected.
Regards,
David Nielsen
14 years, 3 months
Fedora Test Day - CrashCatcher
by James Laska
Greetings testers,
This week's Test Day will focus on a very cool feature for Fedora 11 ...
CrashCatcher. As noted in the feature page [1],
"it collects necessary data about the crash, generates a report
with all information and based on user interaction sends it to
some bug reporting system."
Developers Zdenek Prikryl and Jiri Moskovcak will be available for
discussion+guidance. In addition, both Martin Koci and Radek Biba will
help drive testing for the event.
Please join #fedora-qa this Thursday, February 26, 2009 to get an early
preview of crash-catcher and help shake out as many bugs as possible.
Follow the action at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Days/2009-02-26.
Thanks,
James
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/CrashCatcher
14 years, 3 months
Fedora 11 Mass Rebuilds
by Jesse Keating
In just a few minutes, I will begin the scripted rebuild of every Fedora
package in rawhide (dist-f11). See
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Mass_Rebuild for details.
Most importantly, if you as a maintainer wish to build your own package
for this rebuild instead of having the script do it, follow
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Mass_Rebuild#How_do_I_opt_out_of...
The script will be doing things one package at a time, so even though
the script will be starting in a few minutes (and it'll be working
alphanumerically in descending order), you still have a window to
opt-out of the build before the script gets to your package.
I will be announcing the progress of the rebuilds over the next few
days. It is important to note that the results of the rebuilds will not
be showing up in rawhide (and koji buildroots) immediately. Instead
they will be contained on the side until the script is finished building
things, and they will be tagged into rawhide (dist-f11) en masse.
If your build was started after 2009-02-23 18:31:07 UTC, the script will
not touch your package, as that is after all the proper parts were in
place for this rebuild.
Let the games begin!
--
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
14 years, 3 months
Fedora needs your help
by Nicolas Mailhot
Dear all,
As some of you know Fedora 11 will feature automatic font installation¹.
This is a genuinely new feature that does not try to ape what other
operating systems do and play on Linux's traditional attention to
localization and internationalization. It's a free/libre alternative to
the DRM-ed distribution channels proprietary foundries are pushing right
now².
However, awesome new installation code is not sufficient. To work well
this feature requires a large and sane font package pool to draw on. To
provide this pool the Fonts SIG has worked hard to define clear and sane
packaging guidelines last year³.
The maintainers of affected packages were notified two months ago of
needed changes⁴. However, while many reacted fast, others have still not
started looking at it⁵.
With only one month left before Fedora 11 beta it's time for others to
step up and help adapt the remaining packages. Please take a look at the
bugzilla tracker⁴, adopt an open bug, and propose spec file changes
there. Extensive documentation was written⁶ for this operation and you
do not need to be a font expert to participate.
Also, changing such a large pool of packages is never mistake-free, and
we also need testers to QA⁷ the changes. Please take a look at the
bugzilla tracker⁴, adopt a closed bug, and check the corresponding
package was converted properly.
I'm afraid we are massively short-handed right now. Please help.
_________
¹ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/AutomaticFontInstallation
² http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedded_OpenType
³ Finally ratified in January 2009, but their expected content was
public a long time before)
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-January/msg000...
⁴ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=477044
⁵ http://blog.stevecoinc.com/2009/02/help.html
⁶ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Shipping_fonts_in_Fedora_%28FAQ%29
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:FontsPolicy
⁷
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Repackaging_of_Fedora_fonts#How_To...
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Improving_existing_font_packages
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Nicolas Mailhot
14 years, 3 months
Kpackagekit 0.4.0 in Rawhide
by Steven M. Parrish
Just wanted to let everyone know the official 0.4.0 release of kpackagekit is in
Rawhide. ?If you have a current rawhide install please uninstall and then
reinstall kpackagekit to get the appropriate version. ?As always please report
any issues to http://bugs.kde.org
Steven
14 years, 3 months
