Re: Release Engineering Meeting Recap from Monday 16-APR-07

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On 17.04.2007 07:48, Dave Jones wrote:
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 06:58:52AM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > 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.
And these users are running rawhide ?

Probably not, but they will have to download and install the new packages that got build during the mass-rebuild when they do the Fedora (x) -> Fedora (x+1 or x+2) update. Currently packages where nothing changed in between simply stay installed and no action is needed.

> - 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.

Yeah, I'll agree with that.
Off the top of my head, I can come up with three scenarios where
rebuilds make sense.

- Considerable bugfixes which fix up bad code generation.
- new/enhanced features (such as more FORTIFY_SOURCE improvements)
- new optimisations
  (We could even narrow the scope on this one to rebuild just
   packages that would show a notable difference.  Ie, don't
   bother rebuilding fileutils, but do rebuild say, bzip2).

+1

Taking a look at the packages in my f7 mirror, I spot 52 packages
that still have a .fc6 tag, none of which look particularly
"omg, we have to rebuild this".  There are also 713 with no %{dist} tag
which include some which we definitly have rebuilt, so it's harder
to figure out which of those got updated and which didn't.

Some numbers:

$ fc6release=$(date -d "24 Oct 2006" +%s); sudo repoquery --repoid=development-source --repoid=extras-development-source --archlist="src" -qa --qf '%{buildtime} %{name}' | sort | while read date name; do [[ ${date} < ${fc6release} ]] && echo ${date} ${name} || break ; done | wc -l
1206

$ sudo repoquery --repoid=development-source --repoid=extras-development-source --archlist="src" -qa --qf '%{buildtime} %{name}' | wc -l
4073

$ echo $((4073-1206))
2867

IOW: 1206 out of 4073 source packages were not rebuild in devel (both core and extras) between release of FC6 and now.

CU
thl

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