Fedora 11 Mass Rebuild

[Matthew Woehlke]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 20:42 -0500, Jon Masters wrote:
>> And what will happen when something wants a static
>> library file to link against?
> 
> This one is a little bit more interesting, perhaps everything that is
> static should get a second rebuild pass.  Of course, now I'm going to
> want a good programmatic way of discovering what is statically compiled,
> preferably without having to look at the binaries themselves.

It needs more resources, but the obvious solution is to do what gcc 
does... rebuild *everything* twice, and remove from the rebuild list 
things that produced an identical package. Then do a third pass, and 
continue until nothing changes. (Probably it will be necessary to scan 
the rebuild list between subsequent packages to cull things that are 
only "changed" due to timestamps and the like.)

This should catch everything where a rebuilt dependency caused the 
resulting package to be different.

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