Managing the GNOME updates in Fedora

[Matthias Clasen]

On Mon, 2012-03-26 at 11:58 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
> .
> 
> It would be nice if the rawhide stream was built at the same time as
> well as not doing so has the effect of people trying to work with
> rawhide as well get random failures and in the process of building
> F-17 and rawhide on ARM a non insignificant number of gnome packages
> have newer builds in F-16 than they do in both rawhide and F-17 that
> I've ended up having to fix.
> 

The trick is to not build for rawhide ever, until after the stable
release is out, and instead rely on inheritance. Since building
everything twice is just a terrible waste of effort, and makes this
whole mass building thing even more of a torture. But, of course, this
only works if you get on the right track when doing the first build
after the fork - unfortunately, our forking setup makes it not easy to
avoid doing at least one accidental F18 build before you notice the new
branch...