Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, This week was a turbulent week, despite there not being a snapshot released. As you know we switched the default compiler to be GCC 5.1 last week, which needed a rebuild of the entire distribution. This in itself is already a lengthy task and once completed, the potential Tumbleweed snapshot was handed over to openQA - which was less than impressive: basically every 64bit setup had issues. Together with the GCC maintainer this has been analyzed and an issue in one of the headers (ffi.h) was identified, resulting in broken binaries (despite the packages building just fine). A fix was quickly prepared, but resulted again in the need to fully rebuild the distribution (to be sure that there are no inconsistencies). As I type these words, openSUSE:Factory is 'almost' completely rebuilt, then new DVDs and Live Images will be created and, again, handed over to openQA. In the hope that we managed to fix the actual underlying issues of last week, openQA is supposedly agreeing with us and giving a much greener result screen If you're interested, you can of course always have a look at openQA's status at https://openqa.opensuse.org/group_overview/1 (for Tumbleweed) 0612 is the last one we released, so that is about the target on how openQA should be giving the result in the tests. The next one to be tested will be called 0624 (which is when the fixed packages were checked in) So, other than that, I can't give much more news for this week: GCC 5 proved itself again to be a major change taking a good amount of time. But thanks to openQA, none of those broken snapshots have been released to the mirrors. You can still help with 'less important' packages failing since the GCC 5 switch. An overview of all currently failing packages can be found at https://goo.gl/7EuFdQ A special note to Tumbleweed users that also have further repositories enabled: there is a good chance that some of the repositories already completed their build with GCC 5 as their default compiler. Those repositories can lead to a lot of inconsistencies at this moment, due to possibly missing symbols in the underlying libraries you would be served from Tumbleweed. Should you see any such issues, I can only recommend to switch the respective packages to the openSUSE Tumbleweed version. Once a Tumbleweed snapshot passes all test criteria, you can switch them back to the repository you wish them to come from. I wish you all a good weekend, Dominique -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org