[devel] [PATCH] gb: add gb-task-build-post, optimize packages with identical rebuild

[Dmitry V. Levin]

On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 10:32:13PM +0300, Vladimir D. Seleznev wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 08:45:19PM +0300, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 06, 2020 at 04:42:21PM +0300, Alexey Tourbin wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 5:23 PM Vladimir D. Seleznev wrote:
> > > > > > Introduce task post-build processing. It finds subtasks with package
> > > > > > rebuild and if the rebuilt packages identical to the same packages in
> > > > > > the target repo it optimizes them.
> > > > >
> > > > > It doesn't make much sense. When we rebuild a package without changing
> > > > > the release, we expect something else in the package to change because
> > > > > of the rebuild (e.g. a binary will be linked with a new library
> > > > > version). If the package hasn't changed, it is an alarming condition
> > > > > which indicates that some of the packager's assumptions were wrong
> > > > > (e.g. the binary actually doesn't link with the library). So should we
> > > > > really "optimize" this case? We might as well prohibit it!
> > > >
> > > > By "prohibit" you mean make task build fail? I would say that it is
> > > > unnecessary. It'd produce additional difficulties for maintainers
> > > > without any profit.
> > > 
> > > The difficulties are all in the maintainers' heads.
> > > There must be a valid reason for rebuilding a package.
> > 
> > Given that rebuilding a package costs so little for the maintainer,
> > we definitely should reject rebuilds that do not result to changed
> > packages.
> 
> So you think than tasks should fail if rebuild do not result to changed
> packages. I argue with that. Packages optimization in that case is more
> graceful solution and less disturbing. And imagine the case when you
> have a big task with a lot of subtasks caused by brand new Python
> update.  Some of these subtasks may be unchanged after rebuild and I
> don't see why they should be failed. But if they will, this will
> produce too much needless work for the poor maintainer.

No, I don't buy these arguments.  If a subtask produced a non-changer,
just remove it.


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