On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 12:45 AM, Jon Masters <jcm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2011-07-08 at 00:52 -0400, Jon Masters wrote: > >> We are hosting another one of our regular Fedora 15 hardfp Virtual >> Fedora Activity Day today Friday July 8th, at 14:00UTC (10:00 Eastern >> Daylight Time). The purpose of this session is to co-ordinate the >> bootstrap of F15 hardfp (hardware floating point). Going forward, the >> proposal is that these remain on Fridays, and at the same time. > > As a followup, we now have a working yum installation. Next week, we > will be working on support for mock. Once we have these, we can build up > missing dependencies, then rebuild everything we have with rpmbuild. At > that point, we can rebuild everything within mock and Koji-fyificate. > > It's becoming clear that several points do need raising with FESCo: > * Fedora should (IMO) institute mandatory mass rebuilds. Either every > cycle, or every other cycle. I've briefly discussed with Dennis. > Bootstrapping (and similar activities) are far easier with a clean set > of deps, which is the case for F15. It should always be the case that we > know everything builds and self-hosts through a mass rebuild per cycle. > * Fedora would benefit from an explicit position on the dependency > explosion we're seeing in basic packages. Without going off too far into > my personal opinions on a need to respect UNIX heritage, etc. I will say > that the explosion of requirements is going to be a problem for any > future efforts and will get worse without guidance. > > Meanwhile, enjoy working yum. Next week, working mock, hopefully. > > Thanks, > > Jon. > > I agree, we must have a bootstrapping guide. -- ------------ Itamar Reis Peixoto msn, google talk: itamar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx +55 11 4063 5033 (FIXO SP) +55 34 9158 9329 (TIM) +55 34 8806 3989 (OI) +55 34 3221 8599 (FIXO MG) -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
