On Mittwoch, 5. Februar 2014, 12:34:40 wrote Dirk Müller:
> Hi Guillaume,
> 
> > What is the advantage of your cron job vs an OBS auto trigger?
> > Needed rebuild are triggered. No?
> 
> The direct rebuild flag works different from the "cron job". The cron
> job rebuilds packages that became uninstallable. The direct rebuild
> rebuilds all direct dependencies of a changed package, which is
> usually significantly more. Furthermore it is the "cron job" is the
> same method that openSUSE Factory works.
> 
> I agree with you that the "uninstallable rebuild" flag should be
> implemented in OBS, but it is not.
> 
> > With build-compare, there is no unneeded rebuilds, so it should be fine and 
> > would avoid some errors.
> 
> build-compare is throwing away build results if they were determined
> to "not matter". Which means the build power is already wasted.

yes, but it reduces at least indirect builds.

> build-compare reduces download/update time for someone using zypper up
> / dup to keep his system fresh, it does not reduce the number of
> rebuilds in our "local" build mode.
> 
> 
> Greetings,
> Dirk
> 

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