[arch-dev-public] Doing a rebuild of [core]?

[Pierre Schmitz]

On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 21:14:20 +1000, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org>
wrote:
> On 18/11/10 21:00, Pierre Schmitz wrote:
>> On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 08:24:33 +0100, Andrea Scarpino
>> <andrea at archlinux.org>  wrote:
>>> On Thursday 18 November 2010 07:20:54 Daniel Isenmann wrote:
>>>> That's right, I made such a rebuild script. But I'm not really sure if I
>>>> have it any longer. Have to check it at home. It was a hackish bash
>>>> script which increased the pkgrel variable and rebuild the package,
>>>> that's all.
>>> We have to use the package() function and to remove the ||return 1 stuff. I
>>> don't think that do this job with a script is a good idea.
>>>
>>> Anyway, count on me for this rebuild.
>>
>> Dito, could help also. Btw: We put it into testing first anyway, so the
>> permission to move them to core is not really a blocker here.
>>
>> Allan, how do we chosse packages? I could easily do a query like "show
>> me all packages which are older than xx" etc.. Just let me know.
>>
> 
> I have a list that I will put somewhere with all packages that are
> not .xz format (except those that need to stay .gz) and not in the
> package pool directory sorted by date since last built.  I will dump
> it to a TODO list/wiki page at some stage.
> 
> Allan

I'd say just create a todo list and maybe create a check list about
what to do with those packages then. (e.g. package functions, removing
|| return 1 or look for an update in general.)

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Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre