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  • From: Ismael Luceno <ismael.luceno AT gmail.com>
  • To: seth AT swoolley.homeip.net
  • Cc: sm-discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Wrong build order for: linux headers + binutils + gcc + glibc
  • Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 01:04:24 -0300

seth AT swoolley.homeip.net escribió:
> On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 10:36:58PM -0300, Ismael Luceno wrote:
...
>> I explained it better in other e-mail.
>>
>> Of course I can do it manually, and I did, but it will be nice to have
>> sorcery to do it for me :).
>>
>> I know, maybe it's not suitable for 'sorcery rebuild', but could be
>> added as another command.
>>
>> The only thing that I think should be done in that way is the
>> toolchain, because it's desirable to have the system rebuilt with
>> the newer version of gcc.
>
> Generally, updates are done before you do a rebuild. That's why nobody
> asks for this feature. Somebody might upgrade to the next version of
> stable (which is when toolchains are updated so we can predictably QA
> it), and then rebuild. People don't update the grimoire and then
> rebuild hoping the combination upgrade/rebuild is going to be good. Or,
> if they do, they are asking for trouble.
>
> I'm just saying toolchains tend to be sorted out before rebuilds, and
> with our update process, it tends to be a non-issue.

That's a good point, although I think it will be a nice feature anyway,
because updating an entire system is a very time consuming task,
and rebuilding too, so it's better to avoid compiling things twice
whenever possible.





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