[arch-dev-public] rebuilding the whole core repo

[Alexander Baldeck]

Daniel Isenmann wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 13:36:41 +0200
> Andreas Radke <a.radke at arcor.de> wrote:
> 
>> A new glibc 2.7 is out and it's time to build a new toolchain. After
>> each major glibc and gcc update it's recommended to rebuild every pkg.
>> Only that way you can make sure to get latest (speed) improvements and
>> fixes. This is no problem for all non-rolling release distros. So far
>> we haven't done this before. But now we should try.
>>
>> ArchLinux community strongly depends on good internet connections. So
>> for most parts of the users this will be no problem.
>>
>> My suggestion:
>>
>> 1) We rebuild the core repo. It's small enough to start there.
>>
>> We run a script increasing the pkgrel, run makeworld and upload
>> everything to testing.
>> I'm not sure if makeworld {core,lib,devel,support} will run through.
>> We should test it. We could still hack a simple script doing the
>> makepkg calls one by one in the order we like. After some testing
>> this whole bunch of packages would move to core. Both needs to be
>> done for i686 and x86_64.
>>
>> 2) The extra cleanup should be done meanwhile.
>>
>> 3) Rebuild extra repo and fix or kick broken packages.
>>
>> I could offer some systems to do the rebuilds. I only have slow
>> upload bandwidth.
>>
>> Thoughts? How could help out?
>>
>> -Andy
> 
> I can help out. I have a good upload connection and I can offer some
> free time in the evenings. The script for automatically increasing the
> pkgrel have you get already from me. 
> 

Same here, got some time and machines to use for that. Just sent me a 
list of packages once we have a way to organize the action.

Cheers,

-A