Re: FESCo Meeting Summary for 2007-08-09

[Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora leemhuis info>]

On 10.08.2007 22:19, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram (sundaram fedoraproject org) said: 
>>>       * FESCo approved a proposal that rebuilds in future releases will
>>>         only be done if there is a technical reason for it. (i.e. not
>>>         doing rebuilds just for cosmetic reasons). 
>> How are end users supposed to differentiate easily packages that have not 
>> been rebuild from packages that have not been updated due to E-V-R and 
>> other issues after they perform an upgrade of Fedora?
> 
> rpm -qa --last
> 
> rpm -qa --qf "%{BUILDTIME}\n"

My 2 cent:

$ package-cleanup --orphans

is IMHO the better tool for the job.

> also... 'don't have E-V-R issues'.

Just wondering: Could we let bodhi enforce this in the future (or is
somebody working on this already and I missed it)?

Cu
knurd