Massrebuilds for GCC 4.3 coming soon to a buildsystem near you!

[Jesse Keating]

In accordance with
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JesseKeating/gcc43MassRebuildProposal (which got FESCo
approval) we (Fedora Release Engineering) will be conducting a mass rebuild of Fedora
packages for gcc 4.3.

I have the first iteration of a script that will detect packages that
haven't yet been built with gcc 4.3.  The output is sorted by package
owner.  There is a small bug right now in that packages that have never
actually been built in koji (imported from Extras/Fedora Core 6) are
automatically added to the list, even if they are noarch.  I'm working
on fixing that.

I've posted the list at http://jkeating.fedorapeople.org/need43 and
either tonight or tomorrow I'll be setting up a cron job to keep this
list updated once an hour or so (depending on how much it hurts koji,
as there are a lot of queries).

Maintainers are invited to rebuild now, to lower the number of packages
that will get a scripted rebuild by releng later.

We're also still discussing a way to allow maintainers to opt-out of an
autorebuild.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?

[Jesse Keating]

On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 16:02:00 -0500
Jesse Keating <jkeating(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:

>  I've posted the list at http://jkeating.fedorapeople.org/need43
> and
>  either tonight or tomorrow I'll be setting up a cron job to keep this
>  list updated once an hour or so (depending on how much it hurts koji,
>  as there are a lot of queries).
>  
>  Maintainers are invited to rebuild now, to lower the number of
>  packages that will get a scripted rebuild by releng later.
>  
>  We're also still discussing a way to allow maintainers to opt-out of
>  an autorebuild. 
Over the last couple days I've made a few improvements to the script.

A) Skip noarch builds that were imported into koji from Extras/FC6.
B) Include a timestamp at the top (UTC ISO format)
C) Support a blacklist.

It's this last item that I bring to your attention now.  The current
list on my fedorapeople page is accurate as of the time stamp.  If you
wish to have us blacklist one or more of your packages, please mail
rel-eng(a)fedoraproject.org with your request and we'll add it to the
blacklist.  (see
http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=releng;a=blob;f=scripts/need-rebuild-g...
)  Future runs of the script will take your request into account remove them from the
posted list.

We do ask that you provide some reasoning as to why you wish to
blacklist your build.

Cheers!

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?