On Wed, 29 May 2013 19:44:21 -0700 "T.C. Hollingsworth" <tchollingsworth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 6:09 PM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, 28 May 2013 16:02:17 -0400 > > Rahul Sundaram <metherid@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> >> 11) automatic period rebuilds in rawhide to highlight FTBFS > >> >> issues aren't done as often anymore > >> > Can you expand on this? Not sure what you mean? > >> > >> What Matt Domsch was doing for > >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fails_to_build_from_source > > > > Ah, sure, yeah. FTBFS runs would be a great little project. > > We've done a mass rebuild for GCC updates or other things pretty much > every release for the last several releases anyway, and these have > caught lots of FTBFS issues. Is there really any reason to do this > specifically for FTBFS? Well, if we wanted to run them more often than once every 6 months. Also, we have in the past not done mass rebuilds for some releases (where there is no change that needs one), which could mean a year or more between runs. With enough computing power you can do a run in a week or so. Also, having the infrastructure setup to do them (scripts, etc) would allow us to do them for proposed changes. Ie, We could do a mass rebuild with PIE on by default and see what breaks and let people install those packages to test, or changing other compiler or base options. kevin
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