On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 11:55:34AM +0100, Jonathan Underwood wrote: > On 01/07/06, Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> 1) rpm signing w/ sha256sum > >> 2) New toolset feature to speed up dynamic lib linking by 50%~ > >3) get all packages build with the new and reduced set of packages > >installed in the default mock buildroot > > These all seem like good reasons for a rebuild to me. > > >4) make sure all packagers/contributors are still around just a we did > >during the mass-rebuild for FC5 > > This seems like a commendable desire, but I'm not sure that clobbering > the build system to achieve this goal alone is the best way to go > about it. The build system can handle it. A top-to-bottom rebuild of Extras takes ~24 hours on 3 x86_64 servers (I do it regularly). PPC would probably be the holdup, maybe dragging that out to 2 days... Let computers do what they're designed to do, and leave the more interesting work to humans. :-) Thanks, Matt -- Matt Domsch Software Architect Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
