On Mon, 11 Apr 2011, Tru Huynh wrote:
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 10:20:59PM +0200, Dag Wieers wrote:
On Mon, 11 Apr 2011, Tru Huynh wrote:
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My maze is the build order (ie dependancy order of the SRPMS), What are yours? how do you get to that number of mazes?
The build order is not what took 86 days, was it ?
it's too easy to answer my question by yet another stab.
It's not a stab. Although if you take everything personal, you might think it is.
You implied that only the build order is what makes it hard. I doubt that build order is what took 86 days. But I don't know what exactly took 86 days, because the build process and the problems are closed.
So this discussion may seem to you as trolling, but I cannot be more specific, can I ? Transparancy would actually make this discussion worthwhile, maybe even exciting, and solutions possible.
So where are these thousands of mazes?
Well, every package that needs to be rebuild is a maze. If you require everyone to rebuild the same package and potentially troubleshoot that package, you are duplicating A LOT OF work, and you may be introducing differences in builds (due to build order) that make problems unique to a specific build.
So not only would that be unworkable, it would be deliberatly harder to release sooner.
All when CentOS is already doing some of that work, behind doors.