On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 07:02 -0700, Alex Lancaster wrote: > >>>>> "MC" == Matthias Clasen writes: > > I count *656* packages (which does include subpackages) but either > way, is a big number. > > This rebuild is going to be a huge deal and probably needs to be > co-ordinated like a "mass-rebuild" because of BuildRequires ordering > problems. Just to give one example: > > I was trying to rebuild ruby-gnome2, but it didn't work because it > depended on cups being rebuilt. Warren Togami on #fedora-devel > volunteered to rebuild cups, but cups itself depended on php being > rebuilt first, then (I think) php needed to wait on an httpd rebuild, > and so on... So we stopped at that point because the deps started > getting too deep to be done in an ad-hoc way. > > To avoid wasting time on rebuilds that will immediately fail, it seems > to me that the build should be done in a semi-systematic way > (e.g. perhaps concentrating on packages in "Base" comps group, then > working up through "Development Libraries" or some such, I don't > know). Yeah, maybe. We tackled a number of the more nasty rebuilds involving cyclic dependencies and bootstrapping yesterday, and it just takes a long time, since you always have to wait for the next buildroot compose... -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
