Re: Fedora 11 Mass Rebuild

[Jon Masters <jcm redhat com>]

On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 20:42 -0500, Jon Masters wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 17:25 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 20:22 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > > 
> > > That description of the auto rebuild process makes it sound like the
> > > script will take no account of package dependencies, but will just try
> > > to rebuild things in a random order.  Please tell us it ain't so.
> > 
> > Ordered rebuilds generally only are necessary when bumping sonames or
> > otherwise bootstrapping items.  Given that neither of those apply for
> > this rebuild, effort spent trying to order and chain builds would be
> > effort wasted.
> 
> Er...I might not have thought this through enough but the reason I
> brought this up on IRC the other day was that I'm not convinced this
> won't be equivalent if you're changing the arch and compiler out
> underneath. Where will the i586 versions of those packages be to
> bootstrap with? And what will happen when something wants a static
> library file to link against?

So the answer was obvious - apparently we're hoping that the i386
versions will suffice and that there aren't lots of weird build hacks
around.

Jon.