Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (282 mails)

[Stephan Kulow <coolo@xxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 17 October 2010 15:49:53 Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Oct 2010, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > There is one rather important update to the way we build factory, that I
> > didn't yet announce properly: We now only rebuild packages if their
> > sources changed (they were submitted) or if we trigger the rebuild
> > manually.
>
> Thank you, Coolo!  I believe this is really, really going to be a
> positive and beneficial change.
>
> > And in case you wonder the factory updates are still that large [...]
>
> Things happen, no worries!
>
> > I still plan to do a mass rebuild after every milestone release, so
> > that we do not get outdated packages too soon (and build-compare will
> > still catch the obvious).
>
> So it still makes sense improving build-compare and packaging as AJ
> and Christian, among others, have been pushing for this post-Milestone
> rebuild?

Very much so, and it also makes sense to continue getting deltarpm support
working to reduce the amount of downloads.

What I'm ask you (everyone, not Gerald alone) is keep a watch on broken things 
possibly caused by not rebuild packages.

Greetings, Stephan
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