Re: distro release and reproduceability
Matt Domsch wrote:
Some projects such as openSUSE do throw a lot of compute resources
at
the problem, rebuilding all dependent packages in the chain when a
lower-level package is rebuilt. Fedora hasn't felt the need to go
quite this far.
Between the FTBFS build runs that I do, and the mass rebuilds that the
Release Engineering team did for Fedora 11, and those that Jacob has
done when major gcc changes are about ready, nearly all (but not
exactly all) packages can be rebuilt as expected. The few (and it was
< 5% last time I looked, maybe significantly fewer even than that
after the F11 rebuilds) are quite problematic and mostly bit-rotten
code that people still have need for but upstream is stagnent.
that's the problem. currently there're 7486 package in rawhide which
means 5% ~= 375 package which is rather large number. imho these package
should have to removed or fixed. and to avoid it at least create a new
automatic bugzilla entry for these packages.
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