On Wed, 29 May 2013 19:44:21 -0700
"T.C. Hollingsworth" <tchollingsworth(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 6:09 PM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin(a)scrye.com>
wrote:
> On Tue, 28 May 2013 16:02:17 -0400
> Rahul Sundaram <metherid(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> 11) automatic period rebuilds in rawhide to highlight FTBFS
>> >> issues aren't done as often anymore
>> > Can you expand on this? Not sure what you mean?
>>
>> What Matt Domsch was doing for
>>
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fails_to_build_from_source
>
> Ah, sure, yeah. FTBFS runs would be a great little project.
We've done a mass rebuild for GCC updates or other things pretty much
every release for the last several releases anyway, and these have
caught lots of FTBFS issues. Is there really any reason to do this
specifically for FTBFS?
Well, if we wanted to run them more often than once every 6 months.
Also, we have in the past not done mass rebuilds for some releases
(where there is no change that needs one), which could mean a year or
more between runs.
With enough computing power you can do a run in a week or so.
Also, having the infrastructure setup to do them (scripts, etc) would
allow us to do them for proposed changes. Ie, We could do a mass
rebuild with PIE on by default and see what breaks and let people
install those packages to test, or changing other compiler or base
options.
kevin