Rebuild for GCC-4.7

[Conan Kudo (ニール・ゴンパ)]

On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Jon Masters <jcm at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 11:18 -0600, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> > El Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:37:41 -0500
> > Tom Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> escribió:
> > > On 01/05/2012 09:40 AM, Richard Shaw wrote:
> > > > I just didn't know if there was any "filtering" going on for the
> > > > mass rebuild or if all packages, regardless of dependence on gcc
> > > > were going to be rebuilt.
> > >
> > > My understanding is that we traditionally rebuild everything at the
> > > time of a mass rebuild, because it is a good excuse to do it.
>
> > Im planning to just rebuild everything. ideally drop all the disttags
> > prior to fc17 since  people get antsy about that at times.
> >
> > those packages that still have anything before .fc15 really need
> > rebuilt. since we had reasons then to rebuild everything
>
> +1
>
> This is a great time to rebuild everything. Not only does it assist with
> the gcc 4.7 switchover but it also proves that everything builds. And
> that turns out to be very useful when bootstrapping new architectures. I
> was planning (and still am) to make a formal proposal that Fedora
> require a mass rebuild every 2 releases if none is done for incidental
> reasons, just to help with ensuring the whole thing does still build.
>
> Jon.
>
>
>
Don't we do this anyway whenever we get a new major GCC release?
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