ARM rebuild

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 01:51:25PM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Matt Zimmerman [2009-11-25 11:08 +0000]:
> > If I understand correctly, you're suggesting:
> > 
> >  * Test rebuild the archive
> >  * Save the packages
> >  * Build a CD from those packages
> >  * Test the CD
> > 
> > Instead, I'm proposing:
> > 
> >  * Rebuild the packages in the archive
> > 
> > Isn't that much simpler and more effective?
> 
> It doesn't seem to be simpler to me. We already have working
> infrastructure to test-rebuild the archive, and building a CD from
> this archive shouldn't be rocket science. Testing the CD needs to
> happen in either case.

We are already building CDs every day from the main archive, and they will
already be tested.  Building and testing separate CDs is double work, and I
don't see the benefit.

> OTOH, rebuilding the packages in the actual archive will take lots of
> sourceful manual uploads, and also blocks production buildds for quite
> a while. (Of course both points could be addressed with Soyuz/buildd
> management improvements, but we don't have those yet.)

Re-scoring builds is already possible today, and by spacing out the uploads,
the impact should be minimal.

-- 
 - mdz