f21 Mass rebuild, freeze, and other status

[Kevin Fenzi]

Just thought I would drop a quick note to the list about the status of
various things, at least as I know them. ;) 

First, astute readers will note that we were scheduled to go into
freeze for f21 yesterday and that we didn't do so. This was discussed
at the FESCo meeting today and we decided to go into Alpha freeze the
day after we have a viable Test Compose for f21. Going into freeze
before we have that would make it harder to get there, and just
slipping a week for freeze might not be needed. 

The recent mass rebuild for glibc/gcc fixes finished monday. However,
it was discovered that there was a rpm bug present for the last ~1300 or
so builds in the mass rebuild. This bug would cause packages that
override provides/requires to just not add their requires at all. 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1131892
I have just finished scraping the logs for those ~1300 f21 builds and
identified the packages affected. I will be rebuilding them in f21 and
rawhide. Happily it isn't too many packages. Packages outside of the
mass rebuild may also be affected, maintainers are advised to
doublecheck their build.log if they override provides/requires and
built anything the last few days. 

The mass rebuild has been tagged into f21 and rawhide and should appear
in composes tomorrow. This means lots of packages will appear as
updates for everyone. 

Due to all the signing of new f21 and rawhide packages, it's been hard
to get everything signed for updates pushes, however, there are some
going finally now. Should land later tonight. 

Releng is hard at work today to get a TC built. Hopefully we will have
one soon and can then enter F21 Alpha Freeze. 

kevin
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