On 11/26/2011 05:02 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
Simple: Packages don't rebuilt unless there is a necessity to do so
and what about the mass-rebuilds usually happening in devel-cycle after upgrades of GCC, GLIBC etc.?
99% of all packages are rebuilt there what is with the one percent?
do they not sucessfully compile? if yes - why does this nobody interest?
for me this is a part of QA and if any package shipped with the distribution does not compile inside a mass-rebuild there must be something wrong!
Well, some packages do not need to be rebuilt. Things like the noarch packages - shell scripts usually do not need to be changed. Unless there is a major change in Pearl or Python that necessitates changes in the program, packages written those languages are not going to need to be rebuilt. I am sure you can find other examples if you try...
Mikkel