On Sun, Jan 19, 2025 at 03:18:10PM +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > Some were indeed caused by dependency problems, but it is a special > case of the case you describe above: because of the sbin merge and > the sysusers change, some packages are not installable. But such an > issue is not something that is normally expected to part of the > mass rebuild. Those packages are FTBFS, independently of the mass > rebuild. > > If we're to optimize the mass rebuild, one thing that we could handle > better, I think, is discovering the cases where the build fails > at the root.log stage. In the cases where the installation fails > because some package FTI, all the rebuilds that use that package > are going to fail. So we could delay those rebuilds until that package > has been successfully rebuilt. But even that case can be more complicated: > maybe the package FTI because of a problem in some other package, and > suddenly the FTI goes away without the package being rebuilt? > Actually, if we do the rebuilds in alphabetically, it'll be a while > before we try again, which is not a bad approach. > > So overall, the current approach is better than people appreciate. > Maybe we could improve some corner cases, but there are no magic > improvements to be made. I now read Miro's and Kevin's mails that the mass rebuild buildroot is not updated with the packages from mass rebuild. So what I wrote above misses the point too. If some dependency FTI, it needs to be fixed and built in normal rawhide. Zbyszek -- _______________________________________________ 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, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
