Recently I have been doing some testing on the Rawhide drops. I didn't find any new problems to talk about so far. Just for note, I have not tested any of the drops where the e'mail called out gating failures.
Since this is my first time working with Rawhide, I got curious about what goes on with it through the course of a Fedora release cycle.
I imagine that it is continuously getting updates for bugs fixes, but I'm curious if non stable bug fixes are part of the Rawhide drops.
Do the improvements and additions that do not require mass rebuild get added to Rawhide as they are available?
Do the improvements and additions that do require mass rebuild only get incorporated during the scheduled mass rebuild in each release cycle?
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Pat (tablepc)
On 12/21/18 11:55 AM, pmkellly@frontier.com wrote:
Recently I have been doing some testing on the Rawhide drops. I didn't find any new problems to talk about so far. Just for note, I have not tested any of the drops where the e'mail called out gating failures.
Since this is my first time working with Rawhide, I got curious about what goes on with it through the course of a Fedora release cycle.
Welcome to the fun, and thanks for testing...
I imagine that it is continuously getting updates for bugs fixes, but I'm curious if non stable bug fixes are part of the Rawhide drops.
Yeah. See: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy#Rawhide_.2F_devel_.2F_master
Do the improvements and additions that do not require mass rebuild get added to Rawhide as they are available?
Yep. All the time. Usually hundreds of small changes a day.
Do the improvements and additions that do require mass rebuild only get incorporated during the scheduled mass rebuild in each release cycle?
Well, changes land when they do, and rebuilds happen when they do, so yeah, sometimes a change will land and then only months later it gets picked up in the mass rebuild (if it's a toolchain change). It just depends.
Mass rebuilds are done usually to enable some compiler or the like change...
kevin
On Fri, 2018-12-21 at 14:55 -0500, pmkellly@frontier.com wrote:
Recently I have been doing some testing on the Rawhide drops. I didn't find any new problems to talk about so far. Just for note, I have not tested any of the drops where the e'mail called out gating failures.
Since this is my first time working with Rawhide, I got curious about what goes on with it through the course of a Fedora release cycle.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Rawhide
I imagine that it is continuously getting updates for bugs fixes, but I'm curious if non stable bug fixes are part of the Rawhide drops.
Do the improvements and additions that do not require mass rebuild get added to Rawhide as they are available?
Do the improvements and additions that do require mass rebuild only get incorporated during the scheduled mass rebuild in each release cycle?
Yes, but this is pretty rare. An "improvement [or] addition that require[s] mass rebuild" is kind of an odd beast; it'd be a compiler improvement or a new default flag, or something, that's about all.
Normally, if you want to 'improve' something in Rawhide, you just go ahead and do it, and rebuild whatever packages need to be rebuilt to make it happen.
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