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Contents 1 Question 2 FESCo Decision 3 Rebuild Pros 4 Rebuild Cons

Question

Should the Package repository have a mass rebuild at some point between each Fedora Release or only when toolchain that the package depends on is known to have changed in an incompatible manner?

FESCo Decision

• FESCo decided at 2007-07-09 meeting that future releases will only have mass rebuilds when it is necessary for technical reasons (change in toolchain, etc.)

Rebuild Pros

Rebuild Cons

• Unnecessary downloads for the users
• Rebuttal: In Fedora 8, the repository will be presto enabled which mitigates this.
• Is Presto support definite for Fedora 8?
• Rebuttal: Most users are downloading the iso images in order to upgrade. Therefore they are downloading the vast majority of packages anyway

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