Lots of package updates at once, where to find information?

nichts · 2024-04-27 21:59:28

Hi,

I update my main working system on a daily base, and today I noticed that a unusual big number of packages got an update without having a new upstream version, for example avahi went from 1:0.8+r194+g3f79789-1 to 1:0.8+r194+g3f79789-2. I wonder what’s going on and where to find further information as I did not see related information in Arch General nor in Arch Public Dev mailing list or on the website.

Can someone point out a place where to find such information, please?

regards

seth · 2024-04-27 22:05:46

https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … mmits/main

Lone_Wolf · 2024-04-28 11:04:34

You could also subscribe to the arch-dev-public ML to be aware there was a python rebuild getting ready to be moved out of testing repos.

nichts · 2024-04-28 12:36:20

I am subscribed to that mailing list but I‘m skimming it most of the time, Lone_Wolf. I have read about a python rebuild but I did not expect this to have an impact on so many packages, especially on packages that do not even depend on python.

I thought about something fundamental that that would demand such a comprehensive rebuild of packages and I did wonder whether there is some central place where informations about such things can be found. Looks like this is not the case.

thanks

Last edited by nichts (2024-04-28 12:36:53)

nl6720 · 2024-04-28 12:39:01

Most rebuilds are listed in https://archlinux.org/todo/.

Lone_Wolf · 2024-04-28 12:57:26

nichts wrote:

but I did not expect this to have an impact on so many packages, especially on packages that do not even depend on python.

gcc needed to be rebuilt for python 3.12 , that probably triggered a rebuilt of the whole toolchain and everything that depends on the toolchain .

Allan · 2024-04-28 21:22:13

Lone_Wolf wrote:

nichts wrote:
but I did not expect this to have an impact on so many packages, especially on packages that do not even depend on python.
gcc needed to be rebuilt for python 3.12 , that probably triggered a rebuilt of the whole toolchain and everything that depends on the toolchain .

No rebuilds were triggered due to this gcc rebuild.

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Lots of package updates at once, where to find information?

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