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

[Mike McGrath]

On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, David Malcolm wrote:

> On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 20:02 -0400, David Malcolm wrote:
> > 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
> >
> [snip]
>
> Status: IN PROGRESS
> - IRC chat with nirik, pjones and others confirmed not to wait for gold
> - the infrastructure outage took somewhat longer that expected, so I
> didn't start until about 6pm EDT iirc.
> - The mass-rebuild script is running, and has done about 600 out of 1000
> packages.  All of this is into dist-f14-py27-rebuild, so it won't hit
> rawhide until rel-eng push it there.
> - We're at a roughly 50:50 success/fail rate
> - build ordering was much more important than I hoped; most of the
> failures in this run seem to be due to incomplete deps in root.log.  I
> intend to retry these from the now-existing CVS tags, with a better
> build ordering (but I need to sleep first).
> - numpy is segfaulting during %check; am waiting on a gdb build to
> finish (linked against 2.7) before I debug; this blocks pygtk2 which
> blocks various things
> - I've applied some fixes directly to some packages to get things to
> build.  I hope my changes are acceptable.
> - Sorry about all of the email notification spam some of you will have
> received
>
> Notes:
> - There was a snag with python-nose: I needed to cherrypick 2.7 compat
> fixes from upstream: DONE
> - There are some loops in the dep graph: python-nose and python-jinja2
> both BR: python-sphinx  but are in the BR for that package.  I've turned
> off doc generation for these for now; am waiting on repo to rebuild
> before I can build python-sphinx (deps appear to be ready).
>

If you want some help open up an FES ticket, I'll see what we can do:

https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-engineering-services/

A list of failing builds would be good.

	-Mike