1. In the future we should consider a mass rebuild of all packages
around, but no later than test2
Hmmm, this was discussed in depth at the end of this thread:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-packaging/2007-April/msg00017.html
Some people would like to see a mass rebuild, some others are against it.
I'm one of those against it. Reasons:
- Seems we have quite some users in country were internet bandwidth is
unreliable and costly. If we mass-rebuild everything each time those
users have to download a lot of new stuff where nothing changed besides
the release. that makes Fedora harder to use for them.
- the update process gets much longer for each and everyone of us if
each package has to be downloaded and updated.
- the packages out in the wild are tested and known to work. Rebuild
packages have to proof again that everything is fine (which should be
the case most of the time, but in rare cases isn't)
IOW: The benefits of a mass rebuild *each* devel cycle is IMHO not worth
the trouble we create for our users. I think a mass rebuild now and then
when the toolchain (things like gcc or other crucial stuff like rpm,
python,...) changed massively (round about probably every second or
third release cycle) is more then enough.
CU
thl
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