On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 10:37:31AM -0400, Omair Majid wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> writes:
> 
> > One way to reduce this burden is to not introduce new JDKs to all
> > existing Fedora streams, only add it to rawhide so certification is
> > only needed once.
> >
> > Having said that I'm still not clear on the real impact of the
> > certification. Presumably thue certification is not re-done in each
> > JDK RPM re-build, nor on every RPM re-build of a library it depends
> > on.  If so, then do we really need to do certification for every
> > Fedora release stream when adding a new JDK. Can we do a build for
> > 35, certify it, and then do what is effectively no-change import
> > and rebuild for 36/37-rawhide and just consider the 35-certification
> > to cover those streams.
> 
> As I understand it, the certification (TCK) is only done on a binary
> level, and only applies to the OpenJDK package itself. It's not a
> one-time thing when a new version of the OpenJDK is added; it needs to
> be re-done on every single rebuild and/or update of OpenJDK.
> 
> AFAIK, even if you rebuild the exact same sources with the exact same
> toolchain with the exact same compiler flags, you still can't claim TCK
> certification status from one build carries over to the next.

With such a strict interpretation, then I would have thought that
any time a dependency got an update it would invalidate certification
too, even right down to any glibc update, or even kernel update ?

With regards,
Daniel
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