Plan for tomorrow's (20070604) Release Engineering meeting

[Axel Thimm]

On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 08:55:03PM -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 01:32 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> 
> > [1] This isn't completely true however, since package N+1 will not
> >     always depend on package N, so an intelligent mass-rebuilder could
> >     skip a lot of createrepo steps by only issuing a createrepo when
> >     really needed. But even if we kill say 3/4 of all createrepo
> >     commands we would still spend 2 weeks in createrepo alone.
> 
> That would give up one of the main advantages of the current way of
> doing things, namely that every build takes place in a minimal build
> root containing only the build requires that the package lists.

Nobody said that package N would have to be installed, it has to be
added to the repo, though if package N+1 BuildRequires it.

The minimality of the buildroots remains untouched in any case.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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