On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 09:50 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 08:51 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> Iff you have access to all architectures Fedora tries to support and iff
> Fedora repos were consistent (Which they often aren't)
It's nearly impossible for all the Fedora repos to be "consistent" with
the buildsystem, particularly because people want what they just built
available in the buildroot to build other things against. We can't do a
continual stream of changes to the rawhide directory throughout the day,
that's just begging for mirrors to slaughter me. Rawhide is only a
snapshot, the development stream within Koji is ever moving.
Well, though I
don't understand this (You could build against rawhide
and sync rawhide with newly built packages), I am not complaining ...
... I am just describing what I consider to be facts, which I consider
to sufficient reasons for users to apply "scratch-builds" :)
At the very moment packagers are facing architectural dependent bugs, or
observe build-breakdown in koji, which can't be reproduced in local
"rawhide builts", ... scratch-builds become a valuable tool.
Ralf