[arch-general] A suggestion for the devs regarding rebuilds

[Thomas Bächler]

Am 08.02.2010 19:56, schrieb Ray Kohler:
> I haven't seen a single reported problem from any of the recent big
> rebuilds that wasn't the result of a user doing something they ought
> not to do (usually piecemeal updates), an out-of-sync mirror (plus
> users that can't even recognize this when they see it), or AUR
> packages not rebuilt (again, along with users that don't know they
> have to do this for themselves).

A popular variant of this apparently was cairo-lcd, which everybody
forgot to rebuild, thus breaking gtk2.

I should also had that the problems have been getting less due to the
community-testing repository and the fact that we could synchronize
extra and community rebuilds this way.

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