Packages with "fc6" name in Fedora 7

[Josh Boyer]

On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 20:19 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Josh Boyer wrote:
> 
> > 
> > So you have roughly 1294 packages in the Extras devel repo that carry
> > the .fc6 disttag, and 54 in rawhide.  You're proposing that all of these
> > be rebuilt?
> 
> Yes.  Afaik, we have rebuilt every package on previous releases for 
> other reasons. There isn't a history of releases with packages having 
> older versions. The advantages just don't seem worth the potential for 
> confusion and pain debugging problems.
> 
> > How would you forsee this happening?  Each maintainer rebuilds their
> > package, or a small group does all of them, or?
> 
> I would like to avoid this process stretching out for a long time. 
> Rebuilding can cause issues due to changes elsewhere. So let's do it as 
> early as we can. This is what I would suggest:
> 
>   * Send a announcement here, fedora-devel list asap that we are 
> rebuilding every packages along with an explanation why.
> 
>   * Give the package maintainers a week to do it themselves or agree to 
> let a very small team (2 or 3 members) do it for them. Release 
> engineering team seems appropriate for the task.
> 
> * Rebuilt all the packages that have not been done by the maintainers 
> after a week.

I'm still skeptical as to the reasons to do this, however your proposal
seems sane.  This needs to be run by FESCo.  Let's get it added to the
agenda for the meeting this week.

Also, if this is to be done, the timing is somewhat critical.  As you
may have seen, the buildsys merge was delayed this weekend due to
limited builder capacity.  So if 1384 packages need to be rebuilt for
nothing more than a disttag change, it needs to either be done before
the merge while the core builders are still active, or not until the
build capacity issue is solved.

josh