Am Montag, den 16.01.2006, 00:55 +0100 schrieb Michael Schwendt: > On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:59:20 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > > > We probably will have to do a rebuild of all (most?) packages in Fedora > > Extras before FC5 is released. Why? Some reasons: > > > > - Fedora Core 5 will ship with a new major version of gcc (4.1 in FC5 > > versus FC4 with 4.0). > > - The new gcc has some enhanced security features that of course only > > work if applications are compiled with it > > - The new gcc and the modular X.org might break the compile of some > > packages. Most things probably can be fixed easily if we do it now. If > > we wait longer it might happen that other changes occur that break the > > build in other fancy ways. That would complicate fixing a lot. > > - rebuilding packages might expose some bugs in gcc or modular X.org > > that can then maybe can be fixed before the release of FC5 > > One by one, please. We need coordination with Core, so we really know when > GCC is considered "ready enough", so we could start doing rebuilds. Sure. Sorry, I forgot to say it explicit. I thought... Am Sonntag, den 15.01.2006, 19:59 +0100 schrieb Thorsten Leemhuis: > [...] > 19:29 < jeremy> | thl: I still think we should wait until closer to test3 to even consider it > 19:29 < warren> | Jakub mentioned further fixes to gcc/glibc needed before we do it > [...] > The real mass rebuild should happen around test3. But that leaves not > much time to bring things in shape befor FC5 is released (only round > about 4 weeks). That's not enough IMHO. > [...] ...would be enough. But that's IMHO not a reason not to ask packagers that didn't build there packages for a long time to do it now. (And I suspect that nearly nobody will do it anyway). More replies in this thread later -- have to do my job now ;-) CU thl -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
