Hi, I've spent a little too much time watching rebuilds of the basesystem lately due to the ARM hardfp work.
So, a bit of background: * OBS uses the build-compare tool in order to tell if there is a difference between the newly built package and the build results in previous run * If the package is 'new', all packages that depend on it, will rebuild as well. * If not, don't signal a rebuild One common thing is that many programs/libs gratuitously include the C macros __DATE__ and/or __TIME__ in their source codes, causing every rebuild of theirs to be different, but only in those areas. This causes unneeded rebuilds. And we already have an indication of the build time of a package due to the RPM database on a system. My proposal: * Identify packages using OBS build logs that include __DATE__ or __TIME__ (should be possible to grep for the usual patterns of __DATE__ and __TIME__) * Patch those usages away in spec file. or * Make build-compare able to notice a build change is 'just' because of __DATE__ and __TIME__ and otherwise similar. What do you think? BR Carsten Munk _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list MeeGo-dev@meego.com http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
