Builder update

Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek zbyszek at in.waw.pl
Sat Aug 31 11:23:33 UTC 2013


On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 09:59:49AM -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Aug 2013 11:41:31 -0400
> Colin Walters <walters at verbum.org> wrote:
> 
> > I think the most practical thing is to build version N of self-hosting
> > systems using version N-1 (in addition to supporting building N with
> > N). If you are using the latest to build the latest, you can more
> > easily get into unstable states.
> > 
> > For example, if a new version of the Fedora kernel broke virtio-net,
> > and you immediately upgrade the build VMs, then the system falls
> > apart and requires manual system administrator intervention - you
> > can't build a new fixed kernel.
> 
> Sure. 
> 
> For example, the builders should stay Fedora 19 until Fedora 20 is
> officially released, then we will switch them to 20, etc. 
It would be a good time to review
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=995753
(aka https://fedorahosted.org/koji/ticket/267), which
converts koji to systemd units.

Zbyszek


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