On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 08:44:50AM -0600, Justin Forbes wrote: > > Does this mean we should do a mass rebuild once those patches have > > landed? We have a mass rebuild scheduled for Jan 31st (basically three > > weeks from now). Is that too soon? > I do not have an answer to this just yet. I mean theoretically yes, > retpoline goes into GCC, packages are changed to use the features, and > a mass rebuild happens. More likely retpoline goes into gcc, and a > subset of important packages are rebuilt to utilize it. As for timing, > no clue. When I asked Jakub about retpoline for Fedora gcc, he said > the patches hadn't even been posted to the gcc list for review yet. > That has now happened, but I haven't been following the review on that > end yet. I am hoping to get some more answers on retpoline over the > next couple of days. Thanks. I hate to say this, because I really value predictable releases, but we should at least put delaying the mass rebuild for this into consideration, depending on what the GCC and security teams say. -- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
