[arch-dev-public] Will there be an extra rebuild?

Travis Willard travis at archlinux.org
Mon Nov 26 22:04:25 EST 2007


On Nov 26, 2007 9:01 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 26, 2007 7:41 PM, Eric Belanger <belanger at astro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> > Now that the core rebuild is completed, I'm wondering if an extra rebuild
> > is in the works. The reason behind my question is that several of my
> > packages will need to have their license added/fixed and some of them
> > haven't had a release since a long time (gtk, ogle, etc).  If there will
> > be an extra rebuild, I'll just fix the license in cvs. Otherwise, I'll
> > bump the pkgrel to update them.
>
> I assumed it was too large of an undertaking to do like core was done
> - I figured each maintainer would make their own call. For instance,
> mplayer might benefit more than, say, gtkpod. /me shrugs
>
> That's my opinion, but I could go either way

I've been doing most of my updates in CVS without bumping pkgrel when
I do license stuff.  There's probably a good amount of packages that
now have a license in CVS, but don't in the actual repos because of
this, and I can't remember which ones I touched.




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