Please rebuild your packages in the development tree of Fedora Extras

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

Am Samstag, den 18.02.2006, 14:26 +0100 schrieb Hans de Goede:
> 
> Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > Am Samstag, den 18.02.2006, 13:43 +0100 schrieb Hans de Goede:
> >> Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> >>> Hello Hans, Zoltan, everybody else. 
> >>> Am Freitag, den 17.02.2006, 22:32 +0100 schrieb Zoltan Kota:
> >>>> On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Hans de Goede wrote:
> >>>>> It seems to check the wrong time/date though, its listing a few of my 
> >>>>> packages which have all been rebuild, take Glide3 as an example from the 
> >>>>> changelog:
> >>>>> * Mon Feb 13 2006 Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl> 20050815-3
> >>>>> - Bump release and rebuild for new gcc4.1 and glibc.
> >>>>> - add %%{?dist} for consistency with my other packages
> >>>> Same for me (Feb 13). Packages: recode, python-bibtex, pybliographer.
> >>> Well, I had to define a point in time *somewhere*. I took the obvious
> >>> one: The time when I announced the mass rebuild. The exact one. I know
> >>> that the rawhide push with the results from the mass rebuild was done
> >>> some hours earlier, but it also takes some time until it hits the
> >>> buildsys afaik. Yes, that was Feb 13, but to be precise it was:
> >>> $ date --date='2006-02-13 18:22:00 CET' +%s
> >>> 1139851320
> >> The obvious time would be 13 feb 00:00 UTC, quoting yourself from:
> >> http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SteeringCommittee/Meeting-20060209
> >>
> >> "Packages not rebuild before the 12th of February will be removed before 
> >> FC5 is shipped to start with a clean tree with old cruft removed"
> > 
> > Quoting that page, too:
> > 
> > Mass rebuild of Extras for FC5 
> > A separate mail will follow. This is the rough version: Can probably
> > start on Sunday.[...]
> > 
> > Note the words "separate mail will follow" and "probably". Because some
> > hours later this came:
> > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-maintainers/2006-February/msg00031.html
> > 
> >> A late breaking bug was found that affects ppc32/64 systems, and so I
> >> have to rebuild every package that is built on these arches over the
> >> weekend.  Please wait on rebuilding Extras until this is done.
> > 
> > And I waited until f13 gave his okay to start.
> > 
> 
> As I already wrote in the part of my mail you didn't quote I delayed my 
> rebuilds because of the extra rebuild, once this was done I started it. 
> Appereantly the discussion is when the extra rebuild was complete, in my 
> view this was done when the last rawhide changelog mail was send. + 
> maybe some time for the buildsys to pick up the changes I don't know 
> how/when the buildsys syncs to rawhide.

That's okay. And I wrote earlier in this thread:

> Okay. We can revisit that point in time and can set i back some hours --
> but where exactly? And wherever we put it, there will probably always be
> someone who'll say "My package was rebuild just <insert something
> between 1 and 1440> minutes earlier then <new point of time>, why does
> it need a rebuild?" This could soon lead to and endless discussion that
> might take a lot of more time then it takes to just rebuild the packages
> in question... 
> 
> But Hans, Zoltan, if you come up with a new point of time that is
> acceptable for everyone I'm willing to change the script to that one. 

Hans, so simply *give me a time* and this discussion can end. Just make
sure that the packages after that time were probably be build after the
buildsys picked up the latest rawhide changes.

CU
thl
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Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info>