On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 10:37:31AM -0400, Omair Majid wrote: > Hi, > > Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > One way to reduce this burden is to not introduce new JDKs to all > > existing Fedora streams, only add it to rawhide so certification is > > only needed once. > > > > Having said that I'm still not clear on the real impact of the > > certification. Presumably thue certification is not re-done in each > > JDK RPM re-build, nor on every RPM re-build of a library it depends > > on. If so, then do we really need to do certification for every > > Fedora release stream when adding a new JDK. Can we do a build for > > 35, certify it, and then do what is effectively no-change import > > and rebuild for 36/37-rawhide and just consider the 35-certification > > to cover those streams. > > As I understand it, the certification (TCK) is only done on a binary > level, and only applies to the OpenJDK package itself. It's not a > one-time thing when a new version of the OpenJDK is added; it needs to > be re-done on every single rebuild and/or update of OpenJDK. > > AFAIK, even if you rebuild the exact same sources with the exact same > toolchain with the exact same compiler flags, you still can't claim TCK > certification status from one build carries over to the next. With such a strict interpretation, then I would have thought that any time a dependency got an update it would invalidate certification too, even right down to any glibc update, or even kernel update ? With regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
