On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 13:36:41 +0200 Andreas Radke <a.radke@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. For need of other scripts, just let me know. I can hack something together. I think the process you described for rebuilding the whole core repo first is ok. I think, we should try it. Daniel