Plan for tomorrow's (20070604) Release Engineering meeting

[Matthias Clasen]

On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 10:19 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> 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.

Ah, right. I misread what you said, sorry.