On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 11:31:19AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 06:06 -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote: > > Can we have them in parallel ? I'm thinking of asynchronous builds of > > what constitutes Fedora done on those box and error reports being > > raised to the packager or as bugzilla entries if they fail. That would > > be one start. > > Daniel, I have a feeling you've managed to miss the _entirety_ of the > discussion that's gone before. You've presented a whole lot of rhetoric > about stuff which bears no relation to what's being proposed, and then > make a 'new' proposal which is very close to what Spot _did_ actually > suggest. > > > But blocking the packager synchronously at build time is really not > > proper IMHO. > > Why on earth not? Much of the time that a package _used_ to build and > now fails, it turns out to be a generic bug rather than really an > arch-specific bug. It would be very wrong to just automatically ship > such a partially-failed build, without any intervention from the > packager to make sure it's OK. > > All I'm suggesting is that the packager should _look_ at the failure and > make an educated decision about whether it's an arch-specific bug or a > generic bug. If it's arch-specific and they don't care about the arch in > question, it would be trivial for them to file the necessary ExcludeArch > bug and push a button to ship the packages which already built, for the > architectures on which they _did_ build. You wouldn't even need to > rebuild with the ExcludeArch: in the specfile. > > The only down-side of this is that it would take slightly longer for the > build to complete on all architectures. But the packages would be > available from koji immediately after the the build completes on each > architecture, and the actual push to the mirrors has huge amounts of > delay for other reasons _anyway_, so it really shouldn't be an issue. Hello David, this should be combined with "arch-maintainers" who can checkin patches across all packages if the changes do fix arch-specific code. Keeping Fedora running on all arches is really a plus. regards, Florian La Roche -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
