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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