Re: RFC: Mass rebuild of Fedora Extras before FC5 and how to handle orphaned packges for FC5

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On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 17:37 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Am Sonntag, den 15.01.2006, 16:13 -0600 schrieb Josh Boyer:
> > On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 15:27 -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> > > On 1/15/06, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > 1) Create a FE5 blocker bug.

> Another idea: Tell everybody to rebuild. Wait a week. Fill bugs for all
> packages that dind't get rebuild.

This only works if packages build-deps are independent of each other. In
reality, a package depends on a tree of packages.

Therefore you have to sequentially rebuilt from the root of the tree of
package deps and can't "Tell everybody to rebuild" (== rebuild
everything at once).

>  Wait a week. If the maintainers didn't
> do anything in between it can be rebuild by a special mass rebuild task
> force. If it fails - fix it or drop it before FC5. 

Ralf


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