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Re: GCC maintainer volunteer?
On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 14:59:20 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Feb 27 21:29, JonY wrote:
> > I'm worried that I might break gcc installs if I overlooked something
> > obvious.
> >
> > The upload will be overwriting the .hint files, java and libffi are
> > empty packages (I could not get java to build yet).
>
> I'm not concerend about java (dum di dum), but why is libffi missing?
>
> > I can't figure out
> > how to pack the debuginfo package, it is always empty.
>
> Yaakov might be able to help here.
Working on it.
> > Will you be able to rollback my uploads in case something does go wrong?
>
> In theory, yes. If you leave the dependencies in place for the "curr"
> release, then the test release shouldn't interfere and testers will
> have to care for the stuff themselves. Let's assume for a start, that
> downmloaders of a gcc test package know what they are doing.
>
> Another way to distinguish the new gcc from the current on would be
> perhaps to create a "gcc472" package set, distinct from the other gcc
> packages. It could install itself into /usr/local, just for the test
> period.
> Yeah, I know, I know, no official package should install into
> /usr/local. Maybe /opt would be fine for once, too.
The only way to really test GCC is to throw a lot of software at it and
see what breaks, and short of someone doing a mass rebuild, I'm not sure
that will happen unless it goes stable quickly. I volunteered to put
4.5 through its paces, but it remained in testing for so long that Ports
almost ended up as a completely forked distro and it took me months to
clean up the mess afterwards.
Yaakov