On Sun, 20 Feb 2011, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 02/20/2011 07:30 PM, Dag Wieers wrote: >> On Wed, 16 Feb 2011, Johnny Hughes wrote: >> >>> On 02/16/2011 04:31 AM, David Sommerseth wrote: >>>> On 15/02/11 17:25, Gilbert Sebenste wrote: >>>>> Let's see. 7 weeks after a RHEL release, we have: >>>> >>>> For RHEL6, lets make that 14 weeks. And RHEL5.6 got released 9 weeks after >>>> RHEL6. >>> >>> The FIRST build of a distribution (the .0 of 4.0 or 5.0) takes MUCH >>> longer than the subsequent rebuilds. This is because you have NOTHING >>> to start from except SRPMS. You also do not know the environment that >>> upstream is using to run their "Build Roots" in. We also know nothing >>> about which packages will and will not build as written (there are many >>> that require us to research and provide hints to the build suystem. >>> Hints are things that need to be added that are not called out in the SRPM). >> >> CentOS 4.0 was released 23 days after RHEL4.0 >> CentOS 5.0 was released 29 days after RHEL5.0 >> CentOS 6.0 is *not* released 103 days after RHEL6.0 >> >> Source: wikipedia >> >> Granted, RHEL6 is larger than RHEL5 which was larger than RHEL4, still... >> >> PS And this time I am not off-by-1 (month) ;-) > > It is not done, I don't know when it will be done. All the jumping up > and down and screaming is not going to get it done any sooner. I am not sure where you got that information, but I wasn't jumping up and down and screaming ;-) > On the initial pass through builder for C4, maybe 30 packages needed to > be fixed because the links were bad. > > On the initial pass through builder for c5, maybe 20 packages needed to > be fixed. > > On the initial pass through builder for c6, there are hundreds of > packages that need to be analyzed. So you are now saying that you cannot scale out this work to more people to release faster ? This is something that has to be done by Karanbir only ? -- -- dag wieers, dag at wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- dagit linux solutions, info at dagit.net, http://dagit.net/ [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]