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FS#7569 - some thought about old repo pkgs

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Jens Adam (byte) - Thursday, 05 July 2007, 23:27 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Friday, 06 July 2007, 06:49 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Very Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.05 Duke
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

I've just looked at the current and extra pkgs on the ftp server and there are quite a few pkgs that weren't recompiled in years:

current - 30 older than 2 years, 8 older than 4 years
extra - 245 > 2 years and 30 > 4 years

Should there be some sort of policy to periodically recompile older pkgs (and to bring their PKGBUILDs up to recent standards), or just wait for upstream updates/bug reports, aka "if it ain't broke, don't touch it"?
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Closed by  Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Friday, 06 July 2007, 06:49 GMT
Reason for closing:  Deferred
Additional comments about closing:  once we will have build servers we are able to recompile the whole distribution quick enough on major gcc/glibc changes. right now this is not possible.

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