-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 13 Jan 2015 15:58:51 -0700 Kevin Fenzi <kevin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 13 Jan 2015 15:50:06 -0700 > Stephen John Smoogen <smooge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > You forgot "too many packages?" There are 15842 packages in Fedora > > 21 and 16230 in Rawhide. That is a lot of packages that have to be > > rebuilt possibly multiple times due to FTBFS, multiple > > architectures, etc. > > > > 2.5 weeks is 25200 minutes. That means a mass rebuild is doing 0.6 > > packages a minute across 3 architectures. That is pretty darn fast > > The Fedora 21 mass rebuild took about 40 hours. ;) > > That's really not the reason for more time, its the fallout from that. > When the mass rebuild is tagged in, sometimes there's things broken in > the build root, those need humans to look at and fix. Then, there are > all the packages that didn't build for whatever reason, those need > humans to look at them and fix them up. The ones with broken deps need > fixing, etc. > > So, while the mass rebuild itself is less than 2 days, it takes a > while to stablize things after that. If we branched right after the > mass rebuild we would have to then stablize both rawhide and f22. > > It's hard to say how much time we really need there... it depends on > how much stuff got broken, how hard it is to fix and how much time > maintainers have to fix things. right. in the past the building took around a week or a bit more, we have gotten that down. which is why I said we could drop the 4 weeks to 3. the time consuming part is the cleanup and fixing of issues. that needs people. If everything is perfect a week could well be sufficient. Ideally we want secondary arches to be done in the window as well. just to make sure that there is no fallout on them requiring a second rebuild. which could also happen on primary. we have had ABI issues etc in the past on all arches. Dennis -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJUtakwAAoJEH7ltONmPFDRrRMQANXUsh2dp7XgNCntZX5IvC2j +DHzZ0gJOgvXMH3OgfdaCpjbVk4II98clytnfOZv0Qf4Kq9B7fXVW5OdsRMUvZOr mQ5h1b+hSDcFVNfNF/nBYvFqMX/372qwtMJ+jOWmCjZlSWdmESah9DCAfbOFO8P8 0jQp6nWkOTHry2ltgCR09Yk5G8fWM3xfCTcIPph6LmrFLiTrBFm1OM46mqB82vWc 5yqtTVL3NoqdXfyEoBbkAmTU4VaE5MspdsLZBpeWX0/E19gNhOxT9dUlaPy6wzPr pzOdYuu2m4Fm36bmjp6oJTdbCqewCHvUodIQgwEfWLoxORsx2nYDoPU/XKt7TgXl QAp8Vbas+go449OO7YdUxGAI1dwWahsiKetoNiC+6zRlxCmSy8MZBo0ZCJUGX94h jY0SxYQ8qSbnw8PAbVhT+oTtWvNYu3zTD3mOu7FT8D+dS5TpSJLELGd2vwS21+pk PzeXkmqFyvOChozA1xiOea4F0GRQVSyt+waqUL5RoiECQyJOVT0IAK00XtKD90Ga 8e3oRrOIoEiJsSynEEl/srfSXdB/9JpH+YClMCvHKFCoiiwR0gT7SHF7t/LPnlca dC3SKDpKpujM3/7PdswUs0fJMp5dHti8KxklUuvpJAVZHWZGMQ2ktaz/NYX58ynt Ld9O0AchjJ3elRtpdIj8 =UjDt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct