Partial mass rebuild for Python 2.7 coming soon (I hope)

[Dennis Gilmore]

On Wednesday, July 21, 2010 11:15:43 am David Malcolm wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 19:14 -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> > On Tuesday, July 20, 2010 07:02:13 pm David Malcolm wrote:
> > > I'm planning to do a partial mass-rebuild for Python 2.7.
> > > 
> > > This would cover all Python 2 users within the distribution, roughly
> > > 1000 src.rpms.
> > > 
> > > Some notes can be seen at:
> > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Python_2.7/MassRebuild
> > > 
> > > I hoped to start this tomorrow (2010-07-21) at 16:00 UTC, but it looks
> > > like I need to wait until at least after the outage that's due for that
> > > time [1]. Further, I'm still waiting to hear back to see if the build
> > > should be done with the "gold" linker, rather than "gnu-ld" [2].  I
> > > will delay the build until after a decision is made on this.
> > > 
> > > This may mean that I'll wait until 2010-07-22.
> > > 
> > > Some areas of uncertainty remain:
> > > - the script to do this, as written, assumes no build ordering is
> > > needed.  I know that some ordering is needed, and plan to manually
> > > order the first four builds which I hope is the bulk of it, but it's
> > > not clear to me if more is needed; I'm running some tests to try to
> > > better determine this.
> > > 
> > > Hope this makes sense
> > > Dave
> > > 
> > > [1] https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2280
> > > [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/GoldLinkerDefault
> > 
> > Dave,
> > 
> > Please just do the building, we currently have 19 x86_64 builders. 
> > builder cpu time really is not an issue here.  we can untag any wasteful
> > rebuild so that it gets garbage collected.  if we change the distro
> > default linker and it needs a rebuild then it will be done then.  at
> > this point we are best served by just getting things done.
> > 
> > Dennis
> 
> [CCing Jeff Law for "gold" input (feature owner)]
> 
> I was asked at the FESCo meeting to wait for the python 2.7 rebuild
> until a decision is made on using gold or not, and how to turn it on in
> the buildroots:
> http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-07-20/fesco.2010-07-20
> -19.30.log.html#l-429
> 
> On rereading the logs it's not at all clear who was tasked with chasing
> up the "gold" feature (hence CCing Jeff Law).
> 
> My feelings here are that getting things done is good, and that builds
> are cheaper than contributor time, hence multiple rebuilds serving
> different purposes aren't a serious waste compared to risks of schedule
> slips.  Plus I'd prefer to isolate possible breakage from python 2.6 ->
> 2.7 from possible breakage due to ld->gold: changing a single variable
> at a time is good for my sanity!
> 
> Dave

indeed once cvs is updated and rebooted please proceed.

Dennis
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