Partial mass rebuild for Python 2.7 coming soon (I hope)

[David Malcolm]

I'm planning to do a partial mass-rebuild for Python 2.7.

This would cover all Python 2 users within the distribution, roughly
1000 src.rpms.

Some notes can be seen at:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Python_2.7/MassRebuild

I hoped to start this tomorrow (2010-07-21) at 16:00 UTC, but it looks
like I need to wait until at least after the outage that's due for that
time [1]. Further, I'm still waiting to hear back to see if the build
should be done with the "gold" linker, rather than "gnu-ld" [2].  I will
delay the build until after a decision is made on this.

This may mean that I'll wait until 2010-07-22.

Some areas of uncertainty remain:
- the script to do this, as written, assumes no build ordering is
needed.  I know that some ordering is needed, and plan to manually order
the first four builds which I hope is the bulk of it, but it's not clear
to me if more is needed; I'm running some tests to try to better
determine this.

Hope this makes sense
Dave

[1] https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2280
[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/GoldLinkerDefault