Re: Managing the GNOME updates in Fedora

2012-03-27 Thread Richard Hughes
On 26 March 2012 20:31, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Let's also mention our mass-update script: > https://fedorahosted.org/kde-settings/browser/scripts > which may or may not be of interest. Very much of interest, thanks. I spent a couple of hours and wrote mclazy, i.e. "I'm lazy and I'm trying to help

Re: Managing the GNOME updates in Fedora

2012-03-26 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2012-03-26 at 11:52 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: > At the moment the GNOME updates in Fedora are a bit of chaotic affair. > They mostly work, but only because of people like mclasen who spend > hours and hours building packages and putting everything together > manually. For 3.3.92 I experi

Re: Managing the GNOME updates in Fedora

2012-03-26 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 12:49:32PM +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: > On 26 March 2012 11:58, Peter Robinson wrote: > > It would be nice if the rawhide stream was built at the same time as > > well as not doing so has the effect of people trying to work with > > rawhide as well get random failures and

Re: Managing the GNOME updates in Fedora

2012-03-26 Thread Kevin Kofler
Rex Dieter wrote: > the kde-sig has similar pain-points doing mass updates. Having a list of > pkgs to build (seems done on google docs in your case already, good), and > having your own koji tag/target does seem to simplify matters a bunch. > Then it's relatively easy to compose a bodhi update f

Re: Managing the GNOME updates in Fedora

2012-03-26 Thread Kevin Kofler
Matthias Clasen wrote: > The trick is to not build for rawhide ever, until after the stable > release is out, and instead rely on inheritance. Since building > everything twice is just a terrible waste of effort, and makes this > whole mass building thing even more of a torture. But, of course, thi

Re: Managing the GNOME updates in Fedora

2012-03-26 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 10:07:45 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: The trick is to not build for rawhide ever, until after the stable release is out, and instead rely on inheritance. Since building everything twice is just a terrible waste of effort, and makes this whole mass building thing even

Re: Managing the GNOME updates in Fedora

2012-03-26 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Mon, 2012-03-26 at 11:58 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > . > > It would be nice if the rawhide stream was built at the same time as > well as not doing so has the effect of people trying to work with > rawhide as well get random failures and in the process of building > F-17 and rawhide on ARM a

Re: Managing the GNOME updates in Fedora

2012-03-26 Thread Rex Dieter
Richard Hughes wrote: > At the moment the GNOME updates in Fedora are a bit of chaotic affair. > They mostly work, but only because of people like mclasen who spend > hours and hours building packages and putting everything together > manually. For 3.3.92 I experimented doing a mega-update and try

Re: Managing the GNOME updates in Fedora

2012-03-26 Thread Richard Hughes
On 26 March 2012 11:58, Peter Robinson wrote: > It would be nice if the rawhide stream was built at the same time as > well as not doing so has the effect of people trying to work with > rawhide as well get random failures and in the process of building > F-17 and rawhide on ARM a non insignifican

Re: Managing the GNOME updates in Fedora

2012-03-26 Thread Peter Robinson
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Richard Hughes wrote: > At the moment the GNOME updates in Fedora are a bit of chaotic affair. > They mostly work, but only because of people like mclasen who spend > hours and hours building packages and putting everything together > manually. For 3.3.92 I experi

Managing the GNOME updates in Fedora

2012-03-26 Thread Richard Hughes
At the moment the GNOME updates in Fedora are a bit of chaotic affair. They mostly work, but only because of people like mclasen who spend hours and hours building packages and putting everything together manually. For 3.3.92 I experimented doing a mega-update and trying to get all the 3.3.92 build