Results of a test mass rebuild of rawhide/x86_64 with?gcc-4.7.0-0.1.fc17

[Tomasz Torcz]

On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 04:25:06PM +0000, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 08:55:53AM -0600, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> >> if we plan to do a mass rebuild for gcc 4.7 we need to start it next week.
> >
> > IMHO a mass rebuild is highly desirable, but (with the exception of
> > a few gcj/objc dependent packages not strictly required).  We still have
> > lots of *.fc15, and we even have some *.fc11 packages.
> > That said, why would it need to start next week?  Looking at the F15
> > schedule where a mass rebuild has been performed too on Feb, 7th or so,
> > the schedule milestones are the same.
> 
> It should be complete before branching because otherwise it would have
> to happen twice, once on rawhide (F18) and one of the F17 branch.
 
> We branch a week before alpha though, the schedule for branching is
> Feb 7th so you'd want to have it complete well before then just in
> case there's issues that need to be fixed. It should really be
> complete before the end of Jan to give breathing room for all
> involved.


  By The Way, the UsrMove feature may involve rebuild also.  Last time
I chatted about this, people involved were planning on fixing packages
globally.

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